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SoCalGas is trading the utility’s blue uniforms for an updated look designed to help customers spot a real utility employee from imposters. <\/p>\n
The updated gray uniforms<\/a> will roll out Monday after reports of people posing as gas company technicians showing up at homes with bad intentions. For example, three men — one wearing a reflective vest — visited a Whittier family’s home in 2024<\/a> and tried to convince residents to allow them inside the house.<\/p>\n The family refused and noticed one of the men had a gun as they walked away in the encounter caught on security camera video.<\/p>\n Law enforcement sources told NBC4 Investigates that there have been several instances of criminals wearing utility company-type uniforms in an effort to get residents out of a home and into the backyard as accomplices enter the house to steal items.<\/p>\n The gray uniforms include prominent SoCalGas branding and the employee’s first name. Employees also carrying a company-issued photo identification badge and drive clearly marked SoCalGas vehicles.<\/p>\n The company said customers should feel comfortable asking to see and ID badge before allowing anyone on their property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u3000SoCalGas is trading the utility’s blue uniforms for an updated look designed to help customers spot a real…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,28489],"class_list":["post-426533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}