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[giltner68]

Gone - due to lack of interest.

[Mainecoons]

Your link is about fraud in awarding CFE contracts, this hardly comes as a shock. Not sure what that has to do with some pattern. Can you elaborate? Are you referring to periodic power outages?

[doberwoman]

aja! be aware! if you get an email asking for personal information, delete it immediately! any of the banks or mex gov companies asks for personal info by e mail.....

Apparently, some mex people have received an email offering the opportunity to charge the invoice to a credit card, but....they ask for the info on the card, that is the scam....again....NEVER send back personal info by email.

[golden bead]

In a related topic...We have an our CFE bill about the same for 4 years and paid by Lloyds. Just happened to see it was way higher than usual. Our numbers have been in 900+ and suddenly there are only 00000. Which means that the following reading will look like we went from 0-9. Our bill will probably be 30000p We did go to Lloyds and they refused to pay it. ( actually couldn't as not that much in the account) We have taken a stamped picture of the current reading and going to see them tomorrow with an interpreter.
Wish us luck!

[purplepatty]

Four months ago I had an outrageous and obviously erroneous CFE bill. The next day I took a dated photo of my meter to the office in Chapala. With no arguments, the bill was immediately corrected and I paid the corrected amount. I asked to wait to pay until I received a corrected billing but was told that I would not get a corrected bill. So I paid, hoping everything would be OK on the next 2-month bill, and it was. Wow--immediate success with a government entity--what a shock in any country!

[mpb]

I too had the same problem. I didn't take a photo, just wrote the serial # of the meter and the reading from the previous day. No problema. 5 minutes later i was given a piece of paper to give the clerk at the payment caja and all was well.

[Solfeggio]

aja! be aware! if you get an email asking for personal information, delete it immediately! any of the banks or mex gov companies asks for personal info by e mail.....

Apparently, some mex people have received an email offering the opportunity to charge the invoice to a credit card, but....they ask for the info on the card, that is the scam....again....NEVER send back personal info by email.

I have repeatedly received this email, offering 30 - 50% off for registering to pay my CFE bill electronically (over internet). The email has CFE logo plus all the banks, and came from an addresses ending in sandander.mx. Assuming this email was a scam, I phoned CFE and they said it definitely IS! So beware!!!

[giltner68]

I find it amazing how a thread about the highest levels of the CFE being fraudulent and under criminal investigation somehow ending up as a discussion of your local CFE bills? Ok, you want to discuss your CFE bills, be aware if you venture into the DAC rates, 500KWH in TWO MONTHS you will pay the 2nd highest rate in the world YES, THE WORLD - now, discuss that.

[johanson]

I find it amazing how a thread about the highest levels of the CFE being fraudulent and under criminal investigation somehow ending up as a discussion of your local CFE bills? Ok, you want to discuss your CFE bills, be aware if you venture into the DAC rates, 500KWH in TWO MONTHS you will pay the 2nd highest rate in the world YES, THE WORLD - now, discuss that.

Hey Giltner. Yes the DAC rate is very high. I didn't know it was number two in the world. Could you please give me the URL, you know, the internet address of the article thereon stating it is # 2 in the world?

Thanks. I would greatly appreciate the link.

[giltner68]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing for one

[HelperGuy]

My current bill looks like .739 pesos a kWh on the bottom end, so what's that: like 5.6 U.S. cents.? And "Excedente is /was 2.569, but when you hit DAC, it's 71.55. Wow, 10 times the Basico rate...

[giltner68]

Or, what the CFE "claiims" is actual cost of production.

[HelperGuy]

Hey, in my home province, the gov't is buying energy from windfarms and solar farms for 85 cents, when the going rate is 4 or 5, selling it to New York for 3 cents, raising the home consumer rates, and paying their CEOs millions of dollars every year.

[johanson]

http://en.wikipedia....tricity_pricing for one

Yes and according to that page, Mexico, which isn't even listed is far from the second most expensive country in the word, even when using DAC.

Oh yes, it's very expensive, one of the more expensive places in the world, but nowhere close to the 2nd most expensive country in the world.

[Viajero-Tiempo]

Helper Guy,

Could you provide some doc on your description of business practices of the govt in your Home Province
A newspaper or CBC etc?
I'd be interested in reading a bit more

Thx

[giltner68]

Guess we're not reading the same chart, I only see the Solomon Islands, not exactly a "country" then Tonga (?) then Denmark, very heavy on tax, and our current DAC $.42/KWH (yes yes, at 10:1). But, who's counting?

[HelperGuy]

The Financial Post is a pretty reliable source in Canada: http://opinion.finan...erating-losses/ I originally heard the story on CFRA news a few weeks ago.

Here's The Toronto Star from last summer: http://www.thestar.c...s-surplus-power

Toronto radio station news: http://www.newstalk1...ntryID=10197203

Canoe News: http://cnews.canoe.c...5/18063541.html