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‘Utter shock’: Woman comes home to find her driveway stolen (www.wrdw.com)
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[–] FuglyDuck 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Sanchez is helping Brochu sell her home. She posted about the situation online and believes Brochu is the victim of a scam. But neither woman knows what the scam is.

it's simple.

  1. [steal the drive way]
  2. [offer to repair the drive way]
    1. [charge inflated prices]
    2. [use high pressure sales tactics to scare them into what happens if it doesn't go through]
  3. [reinstall the old dive way]
    1. [put lien on house]
    2. [find reasons to drive the price up and delay work]
    3. [use lien to scare/force continued payment]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Actually, you've gotten that almost completely wrong. What they wanted to steal was not the driveway; they wanted to steal the contractor (driveway replacement worker)'s money. They pretend to be the owner looking for a driveway replacement, "accidentally" pay too much, ask for the surplus money back, and then do a chargeback on everything they paid. In this case the contractor went ahead before realizing they've been scammed. Experienced contractors ask for an in-person meeting or proof of ownership.

Source: https://www.wftv.com/news/local/why-does-someone-steal-driveway-contractor-explains-how-scam-works/LVEJBTGRLRGQFEMW5AY6W7BOUY/ (the original source of this video)

[–] CrayonRosary 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Never mind. It's just my app. I though Sync was good. 😭

It doesn't support nested lists, which I couldn't tell you had done because it looked so bad in my app. Sorry.

I see what it is. You're technically supposed to have a blank line before the start of your list. The Lemmy website doesn't care, but I guess Sync does.

it's simple.

  1. [steal the drive way]
  2. [offer to repair the drive way]
    1. [charge inflated prices]
    2. [use high pressure sales tactics to scare them into what happens if it doesn't go through]
  3. [reinstall the old dive way]
    1. [put lien on house]
    2. [find reasons to drive the price up and delay work]
    3. [use lien to scare/force continued payment]

What I see:

My original comment:

  1. Lemmy has markdown for numbered lists.
  2. It's really easy.
  3. You should use it.
[–] FuglyDuck 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

whats funny is that is lemmy markdown. (I looked it up cuz i couldn't remember if it was '1. 'or '1) ' to start . that said it could simply be that Sync formats the lists differently. Dunno. I use liftoff! on my phone without complaints.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

looked it up cuz i couldn't remember if it was '1. 'or '1) ' to start

what??

edit: never mind