Marc – Sep 14, 2020
Victim Location 68130
Type of a scam Home Improvement
The scammer had a business proposal, requested a bid and offered just enough information to keep up a conversation. He stated he was in the hospital recovering from COVID. After we sent a bid, he accepted and asked if when he sent our down payment, if he could send extra so we could arrange to get the money to another party involved in the project. At this point we knew the project was a scam.
I just had a similar experience. I’m a drone pilot and they reached out about getting some filming work done for a construction project. Same details about being in the hospital recovering from Covid-19. Then after I submitted an estimate to them (which they agreed to with no questions) they asked me to help get money to the architect. I’m in Colorado near Denver and was contacted through Zillow just in case anyone else out there is in a similar boat.