A solar panel firm is warning householders to be on the alert from scammers, after an Oswestry pensioner nearly lost £3,000.
A solar panel firm is warning householders to be on the alert from scammers, after an Oswestry pensioner nearly lost £3,000.and throughout Shropshire are advised to ignore cold calls from a company offering a “free system health check” and speak to a member of their family first, after the vulnerable Oswestry pensioner had a lucky escape.
Explaining the scam, a representative from Shrewsbury based Solar PV Battery Systems, said: ‘We were contacted by the elderly gentleman fromwho informed us he had a visit from a London based company who had earlier called him out of the blue and offered a free system health check on his Solar PV system ‘as they were in the area'.
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