00:01A dodgy job that was started but never finished.
00:05This is what the Vu family has been left with.
00:08I tried to help them out but now they get me hot.
00:12The Riverland grocer, the latest victim of so-called bitumen bandits.
00:16Scammers promising completed work but leaving this family with an unfinished parking lot and almost $10,000 down the drain.
00:24They approached my mum and dad and the man that came said that he was working on a job nearby
00:30and he had leftover bitumen.
00:32Red flags started to appear soon after works began.
00:35When we received the tax invoice, the fake tax invoice, it had no ABN, it had no proper business details.
00:42We paid close to $10,000 for a lesson only.
00:47The Riverland business is not the first to fall victim, with six new cases being investigated by Consumer and Business
00:54Services, including others in the Mid-North, the Barossa Valley and Adelaide.
00:59This case and others likely breach consumer law and the Building Work Contractors Act, but the best defence is often
01:06a customer's own instinct and authorities are reminding people to stay vigilant.
01:10Don't pay the money until you're happy with the work. You can also ask to see their licence and you
01:16can cross-reference the cheque on that licence on the CBS website.
01:19The agency says offenders would need to face court for victims to receive compensation.
01:25Things go around, I will come around, wonder how they will get that, in some way.
01:31A plea to pave a path for a fairer community.
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