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Looks like I was right:

There is a group going around town pretending to be with a home security company and offering to put a security system sign in the front yard and giving the homeowner some type of $99 item for free if they are allowed to do it. Please pass along to the neighbors that this is bogus. These people are running a scam in the upscale areas of town and are using this technique to find out which homes have security systems already and which do not. They are then using the free item deal to gain access to the inside to case the house. If anyone has been taken in by this or admitted to one of these people that they do not have a system they are at risk of being burglarized. One of these people stopped at our house on Wednesday so they have been in the subdivision. I would have called the police and reported them but didn’t know at the time that it was a scam.

Dave White
Public Affairs
Bloomington Police