Earlier this week, we brought you the story of phone scammers posing as American Electric Power or Kentucky Power employees, threatening to disconnect a customer’s power if an immediate payment is not made. However, Kentucky Power officials say those calls are not being made by their employees, but by phone scammers using very sophisticated tactics. Kentucky State Police officials at Post 9 in Pikeville say they have received reports of this scam from all counties in the Post 9 area. And, unlike many phone scams that target the elderly, these scammers are going as far as calling small businesses who happen to be Kentucky Power customers.
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