General Discussion

Is that legal?

My father was scammed by a contractor while I was asleep. We called the bank and they immediately stopped a check. But the credit card he also used said they needed proof of fraud to stop payment!

I called the company at 2 am and told them if they did not return the money on the card I would be calling the police to report them for fraud. Even though the scammer from company showed up again to work the next morning, (after I had told him not to and made them stop work and leave), and harassed my father on the phone, I was still able to get all the money back. Someone senior in the company came to arrange it all a day later and the scammer got some sort of reprimand suspension. I should have reported it to the police anyway.

I did write a review about what they did and that it was all planned in advance after an estimate visit. The senior person told me they lost work after the review, and asked me to update it. A few months later he called me asking for forgiveness etc. I said if all the scammer got was a reprimand and you lost 2 jobs that was nothing compared to me ending up in the hospital not long after due to stress and our house being torn to shreds when all you were supposed to do was fix a door. We ended up having to do new siding and a new roof, they also left the roof exposed. I woke up to them tearing up the roof and tiles on the house and banging, with multiple people there and they were throwing tiles off the roof everywhere. I went out in my pajamas screaming at them to stop after my father told me what happened.