Watch Out For Fake Painters!

I don’t believe that people can STILL get scammed by someone coming to their front door.

I mean, I can see it happening in the past, sure, it was a different world, people sometimes NEEDED to go door to door to sell stuff.

But, now? Screw that, all Granny needs is a credit card and she’s got enough Oxy Clean, Shark Vaccuums and Mighty Putty to last until she’s dead.

Colonial Regional police are warning residents between Bethlehem and Bath to watch for door-to-door hucksters offering to paint their houses. In two cases this week, police said, itinerant painters did substandard work.

“My main concern is to warn senior citizens that if someone comes to your door and you didn’t call them, be very suspicious of them,” Detective Gary Hammer said Thursday. “They may claim to be a local company, but odds are they are not.”

Detective GARY HAMMER? He doesn’t have a reality show, why? 

On Monday, a Hanover Township, Northampton County, resident hired two men in a pickup truck who offered to apply a sealant to the house roof. They worked on the roof, but when it rained Monday afternoon, the “sealant” washed away, Hammer said.

On Thursday, another two-man team in a truck promised to paint a Westgate Park area woman’s house for an agreed-upon price, and they spray-painted the home, he said. Some of the paint spattered on the windows.

REALLY? Some guys come in a pick up truck and say “Hey, do you need your house SPRAY PAINTED and you say “Surely, can you do it in that East Coast Graffiti style?”

“If it doesn’t wash off, she’s going to have to pay for it,” Hammer said.

In both cases this week, police caught up quickly with the house painters, and neither team was paid, so no charges were filed, he said, noting that three of the four men were from Arizona.

Thanks for passing that immigration law, Arizona.

Hammer advised that anyone who is approached by unfamiliar contractors ask to see their local permit to solicit, and if they have no permit, tell them goodbye.

Anyone who has information on suspicious contractors can contact Hammer by calling 610-330-2200 or 610-861-4820. Source

Here’s a prime example, a tip from me: If two guys drive up in a pick up truck, EVEN if they aren’t Mexican, don’t expect Bob Villa inspired work. Seriously.

Speaking of Villa, whatever happened to him?

*Googles*

Apparently not too much.