Scammers are leveraging the stresses of the holiday season against households and businesses on Long Island and in the Rockaways, impersonating PSEG Long Island and area utilities and demanding immediate payment to prevent a shutoff. On Utility Scam Awareness Day, Nov. 19, PSEG Long Island urges customers to get wise to scammers’ tactics and do the right thing if confronted with a demand for payment and a threat of imminent shutoff: “Slow Down. Verify. Stop the Scam.”

“The theme of this year’s Utility Scam Awareness Day is ‘Slow Down. Verify. Stop the Scam’ and we want all customers to stay vigilant against utility impostor scams,” said Lou DeBrino, PSEG Long Island’s vice president of Customer Operations. “It may be an advanced digital scam, an in-person scammer or a telephone call, but

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