Cops: Fake repo man scams Rotterdam residents Published 01:02 p.m., Friday, June 15, 2012
ROTTERDAM — A 50-year-old town man known by the nickname "Pat Love" ripped off several Rotterdam residents by claiming they could work for his vehicle repossession business if they paid him $150 for a license, police said.
The scam started earlier this year when, police said, Patrick Walsh of Edgewood Avenue, befriended a local man. Walsh told the man he owned the repossession business and offered jobs to the man's family and friends, police said.
Walsh eventually offered jobs to four people but told them they had to pay him for the licenses before they could work, police said.
Walsh also claimed he owned a scratch-and-dent appliance business and promised to sell a victim $850 for a washer and dryer set, police said. He then promised to
Is there a law for people who are DUMB? Cause these folks aka victims, certainly should be arrested for exactly that!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
If one is dumb enough to post that things are improving, that there was no dem primary for town offices in 2011, that tax rates are the lowest in 50 yrs, etc, that's a person that could easily be scammed.
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Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
history is easily rewritten with a dumbed down populace
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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