{"id":7113,"date":"2015-09-22T02:23:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T09:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=7113"},"modified":"2015-09-22T02:23:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T09:23:57","slug":"woman-suspects-someone-at-hydro-is-selling-her-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=7113","title":{"rendered":"Woman suspects someone at Hydro is selling her info"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Posted on\u00a09\/21\/2015 5:13:00 PM\u00a0by\u00a0Patrick Lejtenyi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A woman in Bois -de-Filion thinks Hydro Quebec – or at least someone working there – may be selling her personal information to outside contractors.<\/p>\n

Contractors who are trying to sell her unnecessary products and services worth thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n

Valerie Benard doesn’t know how a man named Nick Savage got her number, but he and another company contacted her just minutes after she got off the phone with Hydro to sell her energy saving equipment.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, she’d been on with Hydro discussing the hike in her bills.<\/p>\n

Savage’s packages were worth between $6,000 and $12,000.<\/p>\n

She turned him down, and later discovered that Savage had been the object of dozens of complaints at the consumer protection office.<\/p>\n

She contacted Hydro and the RCMP, and both are investigating.<\/p>\n

But Benard says she wants to know why she was contacted in the first place.<\/p>\n

“I’d like to find out who sold my contact information, because everything suggests that they were given out,” she says.<\/p>\n

Hydro says it never gives out its customers personal information, and has a code of conduct employees must adhere to.<\/p>\n

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