About £28milion is taken from nearly 2,000 victims in the UK. Most of them are older people, who will never be able to make good their loss. Older people are warned for this pressure selling and scam organizations. There are a lot of companies, who aggressively sell to older people and then overcharge them or fail to deliver. In most cases land or buildings are sold that didn’t exist or was on protected land but also fine wines or fire alarms were sold. Older people are the targets of this pressure selling. One person lost tens of thousands of pounds because of being scammed.
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It is terrible situation that older people or vulnerable people are the targets of these aggressive scam operations. Of course it is terrible for everyone to lose money but these persons can never earn or get back the amount of money they lost. I think it is sad that those people are in this dangerous and difficult situations. In some cases they can't protect themselves for pressure selling. It is good that the government and the media is warning older people and carers because they might "save" some possible victims. They are also asking the society, from bankers to the general public, to help and protect the people who need it most. I hope that this campaign will work and "rescue" some people.
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