“There, I understood that it was a scam”: they recount their misadventure with home repairers

2023-10-23 00:17:42

This day in June 2023, when she sees that one of her electrical outlets no longer works in her kitchen, Ghislaine, 78 years old, decides to call the professional whose name appears on the leaflet distributed recently in her box to letters. The craftsman arrives immediately, and immediately tells him that he would have to change “several sockets, for a budget of 500 euros”. This Parisian retiree, who finds the bill hefty, explains to him that she does not have this amount on her. “No problem,” the electrician replied promptly, “I’ll take you to the bank.” “There, I understood that it was a scam, and I kicked him out,” smiles this former hotelier, nevertheless convinced that “in the same situation, other elderly people would have been fooled. »

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