If you have a dent in your car these con artists may approach you in a parking lot and tell you they can repair your car cheap. Don’t do it. They got me and, I later learned, a number of other Village residents. They will want cash. They will do something but do a terrible job. THE POLICE and SENIORS VS. CRIME will do nothing. They do not view it as fraud but as a civil matter complaint about the quality of a job done. You will just be out the money. And the police will not stop these con artists from finding their next Villages victim.

Originally Posted by BarryD

If you have a dent in your car these con artists may approach you in a parking lot and tell you they can repair your car cheap. Don’t do it. They got me and, I later learned, a number of other Village residents. They will want cash. They will do something but do a terrible job. THE POLICE and SENIORS VS. CRIME will do nothing. They do not view it as fraud but as a civil matter complaint about the quality of a job done. You will just be out the money. And the police will not stop these con artists from finding their next Villages victim.

am I missing something. You gave money to someone who approached you in a parking lot to pay for a job they had not done yet?