Scams

Evidently the magazine and book salesmen have moved on to greener pastures, since I have not heard any reports for some time now. But – wait, they will be back sometime. I would love to hear from anyone who paid money to them and actually got a subscription or books in return for your money. I won’t publish your names.

Remember the nicely dressed b/m who surfaces every once in a while who has a sad story about a family member in the hospital, his car is out of gas or broken down and needs a ride to somewhere, or yells and gestures at you if you ignore him? Well – he appeared a week or so on Monroe Drive early in the morning and one of our kind-hearted residents (who will remain anonymous) offered to give him a ride and then the story changed a few times and yes, it cost our resident a few bucks to get rid of him. Another life lesson learned – but no one was hurt.

Another scam has just surfaced again here – remember the guy who knocks on doors saying he just wants to rehearse a speech for school in front of you? Someone has brought this back too – a young w/m tried this at the Virginia Highland apartments on Virginia Avenue last week and ended up being escorted out of the complex by their in-house security and APD.

I have not heard about the “helpful” auto repairman in our area parking lots since last summer. But, I never heard that he got caught either – so am sure he is out there somewhere and will be back also.
Just stay alert and know who is on the other side of your front door before you open it.