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10-12-2019, 09:19 PM
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Re: And yet another scam......

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Two husbands? In one day? You fast cat!
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EEeek! I am doomed!!!!
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11-12-2019, 10:09 AM
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maybe one of us should make an appointment and arrange for the police to meet him at the house.
Excellent idea!

That's the sort of thing they do on daytime TV, but not in real life .... unfortunately.
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11-12-2019, 03:15 PM
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Re: And yet another scam......

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Excellent idea!

That's the sort of thing they do on daytime TV, but not in real life .... unfortunately.
I'm sure the scammer would turn up but not the police.
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11-12-2019, 03:27 PM
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The “check previous loft insulation” scam seems to have been doing the rounds of several different counties so far - up to now, I have seen it reported in Thames Valley, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cornwall. I expect it will spread further afield, as these scams often do.

It’s good to spread the message about these wicked Scammers far and wide, so the elderly and vulnerable can be prepared and not get sucked into it.
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11-12-2019, 04:41 PM
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I'm sure the scammer would turn up but not the police.
Exactly! And if the cops did turn up they'd no doubt get sued by the scammers for luring them into a trap. What ever happen to good old clean cops & robbers? "It's a fair cop", not any more, it isn't.
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Exactly! And if the cops did turn up they'd no doubt get sued by the scammers for luring them into a trap. What ever happen to good old clean cops & robbers? "It's a fair cop", not any more, it isn't.
All that probably must have ended with the 'Dixon of Dock Green' days, it's long been the case that police are working with one hand tied behind their backs. Nowadays it's just getting worse and both hands it seems are now tied-behind their backs, plus of course there are not enough of them either. Those that are just doing what they can are often no more than 'social workers' due to mental health facilities not being as they should, also domestics take up a lot of their time and that's without all the drunks and druggies we see nowadays!

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