Glen Stamper was jailed before for trying to scam vulnerable people in Lexington, back in 2011. It appears as though he’s back at it again.
An woman on Cold Harbor Drive said that Stamper came to her door.
A Kentucky Police representative described the incident, saying that the woman was “approached by a gentleman who said he’d do some work on her house for free, clean out and fix her gutters and all she had to do was provide money for supplies and put a sign in her yard advertising his work.”
If this sound familiar, it might be because a simple Google search will yield results describing the same type of behavior dating all the way back to 2009.
http://liarcatchers.com/fraud_investigation.html
In almost every case, Stamper gets about $300 for the work he never does, or does poorly.
On Cold Harbor, the victim said that after he left with her check for materials, he never came back.
Authorities caution that “senior citizens are very trusting because that’s the world they came up in and so people take advantage of that contract where a handshake used to be something you could count on and it’s just not that way anymore.”
But it’s not just Kentucky’s trusting elderly population that is falling for the scam.
Police say Stamper has active warrants for deceptive business practices in at least three states.
A word to the wise: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
