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Alectra Utilities recently announced that they are aware that their lines are being used in a telephone scam that?s targeting people in their service area. They shared that their residents have been getting threatening calls from individuals who are claiming to be workers of utility companies. The threats usually involve telling the targeted individual that their electrical services will be disconnected if they do not provide payment right away via a cheque cashing service.

A business owner from Mississauga is currently facing serious charges regarding a benefit fraud case that targeted the Toronto Transit Commission and Manulife.

Most of us would trust someone who owns a legitimate business not to do anything that can jeopardize the said business, but this doesn?t seem to be applicable to one Mississauga business owner.

It?s one thing to be targeted by scams as a business, but it just hits too close to home when your community is the scam?s target. Peel police have been alerted of such a scam that has been targeting a specific community in Mississauga.