subject: Fw: Window Cleaning Scam
>>>>>>> This is an important POLICE & NHW email & Ringmaster Message.
We at NHW have received the following message from the West Ruislip SNT regarding bogus "Window Cleaners" wanting to collect money for window cleaning that has NOT been done.
"...... Today (Thursday, 30/06/2011) we had a bogus caller knock on a door in Kingsend Ruislip whereby an elderly lady was told by a male that he had washed her windows and needed payment.
The man claimed to be the son of the regular window cleaner and was collecting the money on behalf of his dad who was away. £14 was taken from the lady.
The same thing happened to another elderly lady resident in Chichester Avenue about an hour later - - the same amount of money was taken.
Below is a rough outline of the offence:
An elderly lady was at home alone. At about 11:30 am a man knocked on the door claiming to be the window cleaner and asking for money. He said he had cleaned the windows two weeks previously. This lady knew that he was not the window cleaner because they had called the day before and she had asked them to come back another day to clean the windows.
He started to be quite aggressive, saying that he was going on holiday tomorrow and needed his money now. She knew that she was being conned, but gave him the money (£14) for fear of what he might do if she didn't.
He was approximately 5' 10'' tall, around 30, dark hair and darkish skin. He said his name was Dan, and gave her a "receipt" consisting of a piece of paper about one and a half inches square, handwritten.
After doing some research we have found a few other offences where this has happened one in Ruislip & one in Hayes, however a lot is probably going unreported by the elderly victims."
HNW Note:- Please warn your neighbours of this SCAM operated by unscrupulous people who don't care who they 'steal' money from.
Remember to report any incident of this nature to your local SNT or to Tel. No
