We moved and they apparently put the service from my husbands name to mine and sent his to collections. The attorney's office called my husband (does not pay the bills)and said you need to pay your avista bill, he told me and I paid the one I knew about!! I was served papers on the other 220$ bill and charged nearly 400$ in atty fees :(  I thought the government had measures in place to prevent scandalous monopolies like this?

I got a missed message on my cell phone,when I got home from work.Avista,said that my bill is paid.
So I asked ,why avista called me then? They said ,I have a scheduled power outage tomorrow,because
they are working on a transformer.They either replacing the transformer,or fixing it.I am not sure.
That's all it was to it.no big deal.

Yeah the people from this company called me and didn't leave a voice mail. When I called them back and put in my phone number they said they didn't have me on record which is correct because I've never even heard of this company and I don't pay any bills except my cell phone and my car insurance. So yeah

Actually I  just got off the phone with Avista and am very pleased with the way I was treated

I too am receiving calls from this company telling me they are sending me to collections...funny, they have also called me from their local number which is in Idaho.  I'm living in Southern California so I have no idea where they got my number but I'm going to report them to the DNC registry if they don't stop harrassing me, like at 7.30am on a Saturday morning!

Avista Utilities Also uses this number to remind it's 'Indentured Servitude' that their Winter Moratorium is over and for them to pay their erroneous and outlandish extortion fees! Do yourself a favor and report their extortion techniques to all 3 agencies: ftc.gov bbb.org and your States' Public Utilities Commission. Avista corrupts Governors and politicians with PAC Funding, which is the root of all political evil. Avista Utilities is an evil ruthless company, putting out false propaganda to keep pumping the flow of more and more outlandish profits on the backs of poor. Avista learned these ruthless tactics from part owners Bill Gates and Paul Allen, now major stock holders. The power grid is old dead technology and now they want to add more nuclear power which is also old dead technology, for more and higher profits, yet your bills will increase exponentially, as it has in every other State. Each time Avista gets caught cheating the people and slapped with fines, they go to the State for rate increases. Avista has killed the environment by damning up the rivers and using YOUR State resources for profit! Die Avista Die! And 'Jail, Baby, Jail!'

It is from Avista Utilities, most likely you are behind on a payment and they are scheduling a shut off of your services. I have also had them call me after moving, and them wanting to refund money on my old services.

Call was to my cell phone saying I owed money that was going to be sent to a collection agency. I know I don't have any outstanding bills, and no-one has my cell # but friends and family