But Nancy Irvine says it s worsened during the pandemic because movers aren t going into homes to offer quotes– leaving an opening for fraudsters. A lot of scammers will just say here is our price, we can t come to see you, we ll show up at this date, and then they show up and the scam begins, she said. They start with their stories of how you have more things than you told us you were going to have and they come up with all these excuses.
Irvine says the amount sometimes ends up being $1000s over what was first quoted, and some people give up on getting their property back.