In the wake of Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (BESCOM) consumers getting fraudulent texts of discontinuation of electricity supply owing to the non-payment of bills, the electricity supply company Wednesday said that not only those texts were fake but it also clarified that it does not insist on payments of bills through text messages.
BESCOM in a statement also said that it has taken up the issue with the cybercrime police. It shared one of the hundreds of text messages received by consumers which read, “Dear customer, your electricity power will be disconnected tonight at 9.30 pm from the electricity office, because your previous month’s bill was not update. Please immediately contact with our electricity officer to.….933 mobile number and send WhatsApp bill screenshot…”
