Police Issue Urgent Scam Warning After Driveway Cleaning Conmen Target Havering

Havering Police have issued an urgent warning to residents after reports of a driveway cleaning scam taking place across the borough. Men believed to be driving around in a red van are targeting homes, starting work without permission and then demanding payment, leaving residents feeling pressured and intimidated.

Your Local Police Safer Neighbourhood Teams are asking residents to remain extremely vigilant. Police have received multiple reports of individuals arriving uninvited at properties and cleaning part of a driveway without any prior agreement, before insisting on payment for work that was never requested.

Havering Police are urging residents not to hand over any money to anyone who turns up unannounced offering or carrying out work they have not agreed to. Officers advise residents to stay inside their property and avoid engaging with these individuals at all.

If anyone feels pressured, threatened or intimidated into paying for services they did not request, police are clear that residents should call 999 immediately. If the situation is not urgent, residents can contact police on 101 or make a report online via the Metropolitan Police website.

Police are reminding residents that legitimate traders will not turn up without prior agreement, begin work without permission, or demand immediate payment.

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