What can customers do to protect themselves against con artists?

In order to stay ahead of the police, most scam artists cannot stay in any one place more than a few weeks. They don't have regular addresses and phone numbers. For most of them, that means they have to market themselves door-to-door. The good news is that, as a consumer, you can avoid the vast majority of these scams simply by refusing to hire firms that come knocking on your door. At ServiceMagic, we do background checks on all of our contractors so that we can connect them with consumers who know they have been prescreened. Click this link and at no cost to you, you can get matched to any of our prescreened professional contractors for any type of home remodeling project. Can customers ever trust workers who go door-to-door? It is like playing with fire, and chances are that eventually you will get burned. These guys are professional actors who have become specialists at finding and pressing your trust buttons. In other words, they are experts at figuring out what makes you trust ...  more