Can the electricity fee be discounted?Electricity Department: No discounted activities have not been launched

"The payment of electricity fees is discounted, and less payment is to earn." Recently, the WeChat circle of friends of Changsha citizens has the news that "the electricity fee is discounted". In the hot summer, some family air -conditioning continued to run 24 hours, and the electricity bill became a lot of expenses. In the face of electricity bill discounts, will you be excited?

"The company has not launched a discount on electricity bills." The reporter learned from the Changsha Power Department that the electricity bill project belongs to the state price department strictly approved, and no unit has no permission to discount. Relevant departments reminded that do not pay a large amount at one time. When encountering electricity fees, please pay attention to screening and not be deceived.

Encounter: add friends by strangers, saying that "electricity bills can be discounted"

"The electricity consumption is too large, you can think about other methods." Recently, some strangers added WeChat from Ms. Xu, a citizen of Changsha, saying that "the power consumption is too large at home", and claims that there is a way to reduce electricity consumption.

Ms. Xu said that because the child was in the summer vacation, the child and the elderly at home during the day must turn on a air conditioner. In the evening, basically two air conditioners need to run more than 10 hours. Coupled with other electrical appliances such as refrigerators and television, the electricity consumption is nearly 1200 degrees in a month, about 900 yuan.

Ms. Xu told reporters that the other party told her in WeChat that she had to come to the door for testing, and then issued a specific method of discounting for electricity. Ms. Xu said that she had been paying the electricity fee through the mobile phone before.

"I have never heard that the electricity bill can be discounted. Have you encountered a scammer?" Mr. Ma, a citizen, told reporters that he has also brushed the "95 % discount on electricity bills" in the circle of friends since July this year. Because he was worried that it was a scam, Mr. Ma still chose to pay the electricity bill through the "living payment" in the mobile WeChat service.

Verification: There is a discount for the recharge of electricity bills, unwilling to explain the internal emotion in detail

Is the "electricity fee discount" preferential activity real? On August 25, the reporter added a WeChat friend through Mr. Ma. The reporter noticed that in the circle of friends of this WeChat friend, the recently issued information related to preferential activities. Among them, there is information about the "95 % discount, which can be charged nationwide" for electricity bills.

"Starting from 200 yuan, only a list of less than 500 yuan temporarily." The other party told reporters during the communication that it would be available on the day of 200 yuan, and 500 yuan would take the next day to get the account.

The reporter asked for a large amount of charging for the company to ask if he could recharge a large amount at one time? The other party said that the large amount cannot be charged at present, and a large amount of recharge needs to be waited for some time. It explained to reporters that although it is not possible to recharge at one time, it can be charged several hundred a day. "After a month, the total recharge is also a lot."

As for why there is a discount for charging? The WeChat friend said it was engaged in activities. The reporter asked if it was an activity of the power department? It was unwilling to do too much explanation, just claiming: things that are not at the power department.

Later, the reporter sent a WeChat red envelope of 190 yuan to the other party, asking for charging two hundred yuan of electricity bills. After about two hours, the reporter had successfully charged the account when checking the account, and the charging amount was displayed at 200 yuan.

Response: For funding security, it is recommended not to pay a large amount at one time

"Electricity bills are strictly approved by the national price department, and no unit is discounted by any unit." Relevant persons from the Changsha City Electric Power Bureau said that it is difficult to identify the true and false of such electricity -consuming group purchase projects.

"There is indeed a discount. In fact, it is a marketing method to win the customer's praise through the discount loss." Industry insiders revealed to reporters that most of the so -called discounts of some online merchants are to attract customers' attention, solicit popularity, and improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, improve their popularity, and improve their popularity. Click rate. According to its introduction, some businesses are typical fraud. After the payment is successful, there will be no electricity bills on behalf of the payment, and there is a greater risk.

"For the security of funds, it is recommended not to pay a large amount at one time." The staff of the Changsha City Electric Power Bureau reminded that there are also many convenient payment methods. It is recommended that customers pay the fees through regular channels, such as the "online national network" APP, Alipay and other regular channels Pay the electricity bill.

Connection case:

In May of this year, CCTV exposed the electricity fee scams together. A man wanted to make a difference with paying electricity to earn more than 200,000.It is reported that Zhu, who lives in Yangzhou, found that there are platforms on the Internet to advertise, and can pay electricity fees at a discount of 20 %. Zhu believes that there is a business opportunity. While contacting the platform, it posted an advertisement on the Internet claiming that he could use a discount of about 10 % to 10 % off.Help users pay electricity bills to make differences from them.After receiving the payment from the previous users, Zhu tried to recharge the preferential platform. As a result, the other party did pay the electricity bill with a discount of 20 % off.Once, Zhu Mou successfully earned hundreds of yuan.So Zhu will recharge all the electricity fees from more than 13,000 yuan from more than 200 customers to the so -called preferential platform.The electricity bill has not been successfully paid.

[Responsible editor: Wang Yaobing Intern: Yang Shuwen]

[Source: Hunan Daily · New Hunan Client]

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