Friday morning during the Alva Chamber of Commerce Community Coffee, we heard some updates and some information on coming events. Since a lot of people in the area are OG&E customers, I thought you’d be interested in comments by Paul Weigel of Woodward who is the community affairs manager for OG&E in northwest Oklahoma.

We often discuss scams in this column, and Weigel talked about those affecting OG&E. In the last couple of months, OG&E sent a notice about scams to their customers.

“We are surprised at how sophisticated the scam artists have become,” said Weigel. “We didn’t realize it until o...