Top Home Improvement Scam: Sandy "Storm Chasers"

In 2012 the Better Business Bureau saw an unusual amount of storm chaser activity following hurricane Sandy. Unlicensed contractors showed up to damaged neighborhoods looking for work Often times these inexperienced contractors would take the money and disappear.
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( Edmund H. Mahony| Hartford Courant / January 11, 2013 )

In 2012 the Better Business Bureau saw an unusual amount of storm chaser activity following hurricane Sandy. Unlicensed contractors showed up to damaged neighborhoods looking for work Often times these inexperienced contractors would take the money and disappear.

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