A retired primary school teacher from Canterbury who was swindled out of hundreds of pounds by a Whitstable fraudster salesman says he came across as “very friendly and pleasant” before the lies began.
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00:00Well I contacted him, no he contacted me realising I needed blinds and came round to the house
00:06and measured up. He had samples, he was very pleasant, very friendly, very nice and I paid
00:13half of the money which was £450 and he said that they would come in December. They didn't
00:19come in December, I emailed and asked about them and got an increasingly bizarre range
00:25of excuses that I got more suspicious of. My son and I went and looked at where the
00:30business premises were supposed to be and there was nothing in that road. The Facebook
00:36post closed and then I found another Facebook post saying it was all a big scam and through
00:44that 82 of us gathered together realising we'd all been scammed in exactly the same
00:49way and some of us got our money back, I did, a lot didn't, a lot had paid a lot more
00:55than me and after a very long drawn out process he's finally been charged and sentenced and
01:01gone to prison. Good.