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THIRD READER RESPONDS TO SCAM ALERT

I saw the article on facebook about scammers in a truck who sprayed someone’s roof, and someone else also mentioned a white truck in the comments. Two men in a white truck pulled the same scam on my mother but sprayed her chimney. It was a tar-like substance that we still can’t remove. One ran distraction about the spray while the other went inside her house. They stole money and jewelry. My mother argued the $39 turning into $300 and one became belligerent and yelled at her. She was scared they might hurt her if she didn’t pay up. Also they parked their truck so close to her car that she couldn’t see a license plate. Their tailgate was down so the rear one couldn’t be seen either.

She described a white truck (she thinks a Dodge Ram as it looked like the emblem my sister’s truck) with some kind of equipment mounted in the bed. They claimed to be “sealing cracks” in her chimney. It had no cracks. They also switched the price on her after they started and said “more gallons” were needed. They also agreed to blow the leaves off her roof and accidentally left the leaf blower behind later. The sheriff’s deputy took it. Not sure what came of fingerprinting it. Sounds like they’re still out there.

I didn’t want to publicly comment because my mother is elderly. I don’t want her to become a target for someone else. Hoping the sheriff’s dept is connecting the dots. The deputy who came out said a similar thing happened to two elderly sisters in Oak Ridge. Jewelry was also stolen while one thief ran distraction. My mother lives on The Woodlands side of I45.

One difference my mother mentioned is one was a black male & the other was either a light skinned black male or hispanic. She wasn’t sure. The neighbor across the street said a hispanic guy approached her and even barged into the house as he explained the work the house needed until he saw all the yoga attendees and left. She wasn’t sure if a second one was outside.

I equate what happened to my mother to a home invasion. She had gone into the house to get the money to make them go away and walked in on the second one claiming he was getting a drink of water but he was in a bathroom near the back of the house, near where her jewelry was kept. The second one then barged in without knocking, demanding his money, while she was asking the first why he was in her house. She felt surrounded. She only discovered how much was missing after they left. One was constantly trying to keep her distracted from what the other was doing. It makes me sick these two men were in her house with her, uninvited. She’s about 80 yrs old & 110 pounds at most. She still gets around well, but no match for these two.

These criminals need to be caught before they hurt someone. I will look into this company mentioned in the article. My mother never mentioned a company name, but she was very traumatized by the ordeal. I’m not sure if they mentioned a name to her. Glad to get more info on it.

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