Shawn Lippert received a scary call Monday morning.
“I got a guy on the other end and said, ‘Hi, this is Enwin. We’re giving you a courtesy call.’” Lippert was told his Scareshouse Windsor business account was in arrears and service was about to be cut off.
“I said, ‘Okay, give me your phone number. Give me a reference number. I’ll transfer it over to the guy who’s in charge of making bills,’” he said.
That person is his business partner Dario Silvaggi who was returning from a trip when he found out. He said they have pre-authorized payments set up through Enwin, but called the so-called representative anyway.
“I might be behind and he’s like, ‘Okay I’ll text you your statements so that way you know the amount. It’ll have a bar code on it,’” said Silvaggi.
With a 1:30 p.m. deadline, they were told to visit an Enwin kiosk at 321 Ouellette Avenue, which turned out to be a convenience store. Once there they were told to call back and receive instructions. There is no Enwin kiosk at the store, but there is a Bitcoin machine with a cash insert slot.
“There’s no way I would be putting money into something that just says a Bitcoin machine or anything like that,” Silvaggi said.
But thankfully, things didn’t get that far. When Silvaggi didn’t receive a quick reply he went online to double check their account and told CTV News Windsor, “I opened up the statements and it showed I have zero balance on both the accounts…
