It seems like not a day goes by that we don’t receive an email, phone call or text message with some kind of scam. 

Most scams are quite obvious, in fact, they’re obvious by design. Those typo-laden “Nigerian Prince” scams (to cite the classic example) are meant to weed out less-trusting individuals who won’t ultimately send the requested cash. Some scams are a little more sophisticated…

You’ve probably received emails that look like they’re coming from Amazon or Venmo or Bank of America – any company that enough people have or have had an account with so that some percentage of email recipients will be tempted to click on a link that downloads a virus or takes you to a page where you’ll be asked to enter your username and password for that company.

If you’re trying to scam consumers in Broward or Palm Beach, or any number of places in the great state of Florida – there’s a pretty good chance those consumers are going to have an FPL account. That’s why so many scammers pretend to be affiliated with FPL (and other utilities in other areas).

According to FPL, some of the most common scams include:

• The caller pretends to be a Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) employee and insists your account is delinquent. Caller ID may even falsely display our number and appear to be FPL.
• The caller threatens to turn off power to your home or business within an hour if payment isn’t made immediately,