After scammers build electrician sites, they pay search engine Google to appear at the top of search results. Anyone who has a power outage and is looking for an electrician will therefore be the first to come to these sites.
‘They mess around’
If you then call an 085 number, according to the police, someone will knock on the door who claims to be an electrician. ‘This one is messing around, the costs are rising and a lot of money is taken from the victims.’
The police advise victims to file a report.
At the end of September last year, the AVROTROS program Scammed to pay attention to this new scam: