\u201cMeals on Wheels\u201d in Ballina are advising the public of \u201cbogus\u201d trade people knocking on doors in the locality over the last number of weeks.<\/p>\n
A number of incidents have been reported where people have parted with their cash to get a job done, and no service was delivered.<\/p>\n
Midwest News Editor Teresa O\u2019Malley called into \u201cMeals on Wheels\u201d staff on Teeling St., in Ballina this morning and they outlined their concerns for many elderly and others in the Ballina area \u2013 as these bogus trade people are operating in the area, just last week, Midwest News heard of similar situations in the Dromore West area of county Sligo.<\/p>\n
The culprits knock on random doors and offer the householder a service such as clearing gutters\/ drainpipes and removing moss from a premises roof.<\/p>\n
They present, making reference to reputable businesses in the area, who they claim have used their services.<\/p>\n
The warning from \u201cMeals on Wheels\u201d is to check with the people\/ businesses being referred to.<\/p>\n
The\u201d bogus\u201d trades people, sometimes a single trades person, then asks for cash to hire equipment to carry out the job, and once the cash is in hand \u2013 hundreds of euro in many cases, the tradesperson is never seen again.<\/p>\n
The incidents have been reported to the Gardai in Ballina and investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n
The clear message from Ballina \u201cMeals on Wheels\u201d to their service users and the general public \u00a0\u2013 is not to engage at the door with anyone offering a service that you have not sought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMeals on Wheels\u201d in Ballina are advising the public of \u201cbogus\u201d trade people knocking on doors in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-611578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}