Scam in Solway Road

[chrisneill]

Recently we have had works undertaken on the frontage of our house in Solway Road.

Today my neighbour, a woman in her seventies living alone, was called on by a man calling himself Barry Thompson who said he was a surveyor working on our house. He spun a story about having noticed damp in her attic and offered to take her to the bank to take out ?4000 as "a deposit" for some piece of equipment to deal with this problem.

Needless to say the whole thing is a scam. We have not employed a surveyor and I can only think that having seen the scaffolding on our property he thought he would try to rob my neighbour of a large amount of money.

I'm just writing this to warn other people and if anybody has an idea who this Barry Thompson is then let me know. The police have already been called.

Thanks.

[KestonKid]

Thanks for the warning!

Cheeky so-and-so. Will let our at-risk neighbours know that "Barry" is about.

[Chick]

Description??

[chrisneill]

My neighbour couldn't remember much but she thought he was mid-30s, white and possibly with a small moustache.

[Penguin68]

and possibly with a small moustache

Movember?

[Chick]

Thanks

[sallyredfern]

not funny