Bescom cautions consumers not to fall prey to fraudsters

In a new form of cybercrime, at least 10 Bescom consumers have received fraudulent messages saying that the power connections to their houses will be disconnected owing to payment failure.

Those who responded to these messages have lost money and have now raised complaints with the cyber crime police.

Wing Commander K Cherian, one of the victims who lost Rs 10,000 to the fraud explained to DH how the trap works. “We received a message two weeks back saying that we have unpaid power bills. Though we received two such messages in a span of two weeks, we ignored them since we had already paid up the bills.”