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Utilities around the state report concerns from commercial and residential customers receiving high pressure phone calls from scammers posing as utility bill collectors. In the current incident, several local businesses have reported receiving threatening phone calls from fraudsters. Scammers use scare tactics in attempt to coerce customers into providing credit card or other payment information over the phone, threatening to cut off electricity if immediate payment is not tendered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a customer should ever have any question about the identity of a BrightRidge representative in any situation, request the caller\u2019s name, department, and phone number, hang up and then contact customer service at (423) 952-5000. In addition, customers also can quickly check the status of their accounts 24 hours a day by phoning (423) 952-5000 and selecting option 2 on the automated attendant, or online through our SmartHub web and mobile application, available on the front page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BrightRidge.com\">www.BrightRidge.com<\/a> website.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-98270934\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-412fbb2e\">\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-a924cc47 gb-headline-text\">About BrightRidge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BrightRidge is a publicly owned electric utility serving 83,671 customers in Washington, Sullivan, Carter and Greene counties. It is the 10th largest local power company in the Tennessee Valley Authority service area. BrightRidge Broadband, a division of BrightRidge, offers nation-leading 10GB symmetrical fiber-to-the-premise services to more than 30,000 locations in its service area.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>CIUDAD DE JOHNSON<\/b> \u2013 Al menos tres empresas informaron que estafadores telef\u00f3nicos operaban en la regi\u00f3n el mi\u00e9rcoles. Las empresas de servicios p\u00fablicos de todo el estado informan preocupaciones de clientes comerciales y residenciales que reciben llamadas telef\u00f3nicas de alta presi\u00f3n de estafadores que se hacen pasar por cobradores de facturas de servicios p\u00fablicos. 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