bogus Thames Water workman in Bellenden

[Mrs TP]

A guy knocked at our door around 9.30am this morning and claimed to be from Thames Water investigating blocked drains at a property a few doors up that is undergoing substantial refurbishment and always has an army of workman buzzing around it.

He was a white guy in hid mis 30's, 5'8 to 5'10 well built, short brown hair and wearing a yellow high vis waistcoat and clutching some dirty tools - one looked like a small garden dibber.

He wanted to come in and look at our drains. I asked for ID and he didn't have any but claimed his Thames Water van was parked up the road.

I told him I still wasn't going to let him in and that actually the drains ran the other way (which if he was legit he should have known).

Have told the police and they going to have a look around for him.

Just to everyone to beware - he was a bit of a comedy workman clutching an odd selection of tools and no ID.

[Huggers]

was it bellenden road or an adjoining road? we had two men wanting to go through our house to remove our neighbours back scaffoldilng- neighbours were at work and the guys didnt have their number. Our Neighbours do have back scaffolding but these two were well dodgy.

[intexasatthe moment]

Thanks for letting us know .

My mother is in that area and had a similar bogus caller - it was 18 months ago but very similar description and story .

[Mrs TP]

I spoke to the legit builders at the house undergoing development later in the afternoon and they told me there were no problems with the drains and Thames Water had not been round.

[Sue]

Mrs TP Wrote:

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> clutching some dirty tools - one looked like a small garden dibber.

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Sorry, I know this isn't funny and I hope the police find him, but that did make me laugh .......

[gg96cgp]

Hi

Thames water are in the area this week as they are working on Mcdermott Road as I had a letter last week giving me the heads up. Your particular caller may be opportunistic (and sounds like it based on his drain knowledge) but just thought i'd share.

thanks