Fraudulent message involving late payment of electricity

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

Some Madeirans are receiving fraudulent messages on behalf of the Madeira Electricity Company (EEM).

The message informs the customer that he has amounts owed and is accompanied by an entity and ATM reference that has nothing to do with the company and whose objective is to extort money from citizens. The message threatens that electricity will be cut if payment is not made by a certain date.

Do not be fooled with these scams, and there are many of them going around.

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9 Responses

  1. I wonder if it is not possible to find out who is the responsable person behind that. How does the payment system work? If you would like to recieve money by that kind of payment, how do you get an “entidade” number?

    1. Yes it does, Ha, I’ve been telling them for 3 years now making, I’ve went to the local council and offer a proposition to avoid any problems, yes that’s right, 0.000% chance, first thing on an email however and this is the problem, how savy, well acknowledged specially amongst the eldering masses, is to compare, messages on the other hand.. its a pickle, specially such well tailored like this example, I’m putting myself to change society, not only here in madeira, I’ve called it, World Consortium, we woe it to ourselves, we have all the commodities, why not seace it?

  2. MB (MultiBanco) surely can, and may have done so, block the entidade number so that no transaction can be completed. Easy.

  3. I think it’s worth pointing out that this scam may be taking advantage of the fact that those who don’t or can’t pay by direct debit barely see a postman/woman these days because CTT are basically inept at delivering mail. I have just received my EEM bill for February.The postie passes by here maybe once a month and my letterbox is full of letters, bills etc for other people.My address and name are clearly marked on the letterbox but….I have tried to catch the postie and have a word but my time is mostly taken up by GOING TO WORK. I have suggested to my wife that we spend my occasional day off sitting by the postbox (no seaview), that didn’t go down well.

    2. BJR
      My advice go the CTT post where you live and try to speak with the manager or call them CTT telephone 210471616 from 8.30 to 19h30 try to go to their the have the option in English site http://www.ctt.pt/ajuda/particulares/apoio-ao-cliente/contactos when you to this page in the bottom page right side their is a section Ajuda e contactos where you can send a message to them . As far your poor wife waiting outside for the postman you need to improve the waiting facilities .??

  4. CTT since been privatized it is a complete disgrace not only for deliver but when you dealing with them to release customs it is another nightmare . I’m Portuguese and when trying to deal with their CTT page of customs sometimes is difficult and for the expats most be even more . ??

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