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The Rappahannock Commonwealth’s Attorney, Peter Luke, wants to warn county residents that the “asphalt gypsies” are back working this area again.
On May 15 they managed to defraud a county resident of $3,000. They approach a property owner and their usual pitch is that they have asphalt left over from another job and will use it to pave the owner’s driveway at a very cheap price.
Often a written “contract” is made. After the work is done they say the job cost more than they expected and demand a considerably larger sum of money. In many occasions the work is inferior and soon starts to break up.
They work as a gang, and in the course of the scam the property owner usually ends up dealing with various individuals. This is done to make criminal prosecution more difficult. These people are professional criminals, and up and down the East coast they run variations of this scam.
They frequently target the elderly, and sometimes use intimidation to obtain payment if the property owner balks at paying. They usually have new equipment and give the appearance of a legitimate
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