It was less than two days before Christmas, family members were coming, food needed to be prepared – things already were hectic enough. Then the woman got a call that her electricity was about to be cut off, so she basically went into a panic. That was exactly what the scammers were hoping for. It wound up costing the Lamesa resident almost $300 – money she certainly could have used for other things during the holidays. But only a short time after the incident, the woman was reaching out to warn others about the scam and the hard lessons she had learned. “If I can ...