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At my old place of employment we had a guy come walking in with a typical work uniform and he had a clip board. He walked around to the different fire extinguishers and looked at the information. He got to the back of the building and was about to open a darkroom door when I first saw him and stopped him. He stated writing up an invoice and handed it to me for extinguisher inspection. It was like $250 bucks. I laughed at him. I walked him right to the bosses office. He got belligerent and demanded payment in full. The owner called the police. The dude snatched the invoice out of my hands and took off out the door. He mailed us a statement for over a year before he gave up.
The cops told us about the scam. Evidently he would walk into a business and look like he was supposed to be there and hand the invoice to a secretary and he regularly got paid. It was not really illegal since he "performed a service" even though no one asked him to do it.
It was not a 17K invoice, but 5 minutes of "inspecting" a fire extinguisher tag and getting paid is a sweet deal for him. That was an analog "phishing" scam from before email.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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