Contractor Defrauds Wisconsin Homeowners
The Perfect Scam
AARP
4.5 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
When a fire destroys his Wisconsin home, Royce Babcock and his family are forced to live out of their garage. Desperate to get his home rebuilt, Babcock hires Tyler Hansen, who has excellent reviews and reasonable rates. Delay after delay and myriad excuses leave Babcock with no choice but to take his complaints to law enforcement. This reveals a history of Hansen and his wife defrauding homeowners all over the state.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on the perfect scam. |
| 0:02.0 | I mean he put it together pretty good with the timing of COVID and the way materials and the supply chain was going. |
| 0:09.0 | You hear it all the day on news like, oh chain supply chains so everybody already has that |
| 0:14.3 | seed planted in their head that everything's gonna take time well you already |
| 0:18.7 | know it's gonna take time and then he shows up 14 weeks later with the wrong |
| 0:21.8 | stuff you already know it's gonna be up 14 weeks later with the wrong stuff you already know it's going to be |
| 0:23.7 | another 14 weeks to drop it off to make it look like an effort you start you |
| 0:27.9 | know it hits your you hit your feelings like oh man this guy's having a rough time |
| 0:31.1 | too when he turns out he wasn't having a rough time he was living |
| 0:34.1 | the time of his life just taking everybody's money. |
| 0:40.4 | Welcome back to the perfect scam I'm your host Bob Sullivan. |
| 0:45.0 | When a disaster happens like a flood, a hurricane, or a fire, |
| 0:49.0 | victims often find themselves in desperate need of home repair help. And that's often when criminals |
| 0:55.9 | swoop in. False promises, missed deadlines, even outright theft, or nothing new |
| 1:01.3 | in the construction industry, but the number of consumers complaining |
| 1:05.2 | to federal authorities about home repair scams has dramatically increased in recent |
| 1:10.3 | years. |
| 1:11.3 | For example, believe it or not, home repair complaints are as common as complaints |
| 1:16.3 | about telemarketing in the state of Wisconsin. And that's where our story begins today. |
| 1:22.0 | My name is Royce Babcock. |
| 1:25.0 | I live in Wisconsin-Dells, Wisconsin. |
| 1:27.6 | And what do you do, Royce? |
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