North Texas cities are sending out a warning about a new scam targeting hotels.
Every month residents, businesses and hotels pay water bills.Matt Martucci with the City of Lewisville says five hotels received calls requesting payment for an overdue water bill.
"He said the phone number came from a City of Lewisville phone number and the caller has sent him a Zelle pay cash app link," said Martucci.The caller claimed if they didn't receive payment the water would be shut off.Out of the five hotels that received the call, once ended up paying $3,500. "He, being a new hotelier, came to the city and said ‘hey, I just want to make sure you got my payment' and our water billing people were questioning what payment he was talking about. He told us about it and that’s when we realized there was a scam going on," said Martucci.Martucci says hotels in Dallas and Irving also received calls requesting water bill payments.
"Off the top of my head, I would think for a couple of reasons, they’re a large residential high water type usage. So a high bill would not seem out of the ordinary, or a high amount," he said."The first thing we do not do is call you and tell you we’re cutting off your water, that would be the first red flag," he explained.
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