{"id":2110,"date":"2020-03-27T11:10:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/checkaco.com\/blog\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2021-02-03T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T13:33:38","slug":"offered-a-new-tarmac-driveway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/checkaco.com\/blog\/offered-a-new-tarmac-driveway\/","title":{"rendered":"Offered a new tarmac driveway?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"909\" height=\"811\" src=\"https:\/\/checkaco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-25-driveway-scam.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/checkaco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-25-driveway-scam.jpg 909w, https:\/\/checkaco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-25-driveway-scam-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/checkaco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-25-driveway-scam-768x685.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 909px) 100vw, 909px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"> Checkaco the company first before you part with any cash <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The driveway cowboys have been around ever since tarmac was invented. The con is the dodgy workman knocks on the victim\u2019s door and says they\u2019ve some spare resurfacing material left over after working on a nearby road scheme and for cash, they\u2019ll redo the householder\u2019s driveway. They look unprofessional and you guessed it &#8211; money changes hands and they quickly resurface the driveway with inferior material which soon washes away in the first downpour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there are also cowboys who appear to be professional road and driveway operatives. They have trucks with Highways Authority insignia with their name and officialdom endorsements on the side of their vehicles. But despite appearances and an official name and the word \u2018Limited\u2019 added to their firm\u2019s title they are not what they seem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Allan\nCoutts who traded under a long list of different names and took up to \u00a36,000\noff more than 500 victims across England and Wales for a shoddy job in 2018.\nTrading Standards in Powys eventually brought him to book and he was finally\nsentenced to a spell in jail. If any of his victims had done a Checkaco search\nfor \u00a33.85 they would have quickly rumbled him as his various companies and\ndirectorships would have been revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if in doubt\ncheck them out first at <a href=\"https:\/\/checkaco.com\/\">https:\/\/checkaco.com\/<\/a>\nand for \u00a33.85 save yourself a lot of heartache, stress and cash. \n\nPicture caption: How the Daily Mirror reported\nthe case\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offered a new tarmac driveway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[224,236,238,195,235,237],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potential-scammers","tag-checkaco","tag-driveway","tag-driveway-scam","tag-scammer","tag-tarmac","tag-tarmac-driveway"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Offered a new tarmac driveway? 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