Construction scam costs property owner
May 13, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
Consumer beware. Scams aren’t limited to door-to-door magazine sales or over-the-phone schemes. As the demand for construction work increases with North Dakota’s short season, so do those trying to take advantage of home and business owners in need of updates and repairs.
A busy construction season last year prompted Bill Andrus to waive his first choice to do some paving work at All Season Storage in the spring and go with an asphalt contractor he did not know. Continue Reading
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Although those words could have just as easily come from your mother, they sum up the message of the North Dakota Attorney General’s office concerning telephone and walk-up scams that, according to several citizens, have been occurring in the Dickinson area lately. 
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