"Bell" Phone Scam
Just a heads up to anyone who has been receiving phone calls from “Bell Canada”. We have been receiving about a phone call a week for about a month or so. These people calling are asking for account and personal information. And although we are registered on the National Do Not Call Registry , this is not stopping them. Turns out , it is not Bell at all , it is a well known scam running in the Kingston area. If you do receive one of these calls or anything similar , the best thing to do is get the phone number they called from , and contact Phonebusters at 1 (888) 495-8501.
Jen woke me up at 5:45 AM this morning to a flooded basement. Turns out our hot water heater ( circa 1964 ) had burst. After not being able to find the shutoff valve , because it had been removed , I had to cut the main water valve. Then realizing I was standing in my bare feet in two inches of water , I decided to cut the power to the electric heater , also sitting in two inches of water. After several phone calls to plumbers and Kingston Utilities , the only response I continued to get was , “someone will call you in the next 4-24 hours. At 1:30 this afternoon , I called Reliance Energy. At 2:30 , their man called me back with a new rental heater in his truck and installed it by 4:30. Good times.
