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Rogue roofer?

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  • #32
    handlemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,003 ✭✭✭handlemaster


    Jim_Hodge wrote: »
    Does it change anything? :rolleyes:

    Future victims


  • #33
    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,437 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    handlemaster wrote: »
    Future victims

    That applies no matter who they are?


  • #34
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,890 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Darc19 wrote: »
    Gardai have a particular interest in this type of scam and would love to be informed.

    This is not a group fixing a leak. This is an outright scam against an elderly person.

    Except this does not match the typical 'repair' scam that you're thinking about.

    Two big differences - the service was required and it was the householder who called them i.e. it wasn't a cold call.

    The tenant had a leaking roof, saw an ad. and engaged these cowboys because she didn't have the local knowledge to spot that they were in all probability complete chancers who were lacking the skills and competence to carry out the required work.

    They called to the house at her invitation, they did not knock on the door of a vulnerable old person offering services she did not need.


  • #35
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    handlemaster wrote: »
    Dare we say who these people were

    No need. As Tommy Tiernan might say, “well, it wasn’t the feckin’ Mexicans!”.


  • #36
    pockets3d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭pockets3d


    Have you consulted your local SF Councillor?


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