Scam Alert: Diluted Blacktop Sealer

For Immediate Release
June 25, 2014

Beware of Diluted Blacktop Sealer Scam

Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones is alerting Butler County residents of current scams involving inferior blacktop sealer product. As with similar “home improvement-type scams,” contact with a victim usually starts out with a knock on the door or an unsolicited phone call with an offer to provide products or services at a cheap, attractive price because there is some left-over material from a previous job. In the current scam, even though the finished job may look great at first, the sealer product, usually dispensed out of a plastic or metal tank from the back of a pickup truck, has been diluted (or watered down) so much that it simply washes away. By the time the victim realizes the problem, the worker(s) and the victim’s money are long gone.

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To avoid becoming a victim, Sheriff Jones offers the following suggestions. First, always be exceptionally cautious if someone approaches you first and offers a “good deal” for a quick repair/service. Get two or three bids for work. Get agreements in writing. Get ID’s from workers, and write down their names and addresses. Also, write down the license numbers for any vehicles involved in completing the work. Ask where the sealer mixture was purchased, and if it turns out to be a bad mix, the Sheriff wants to know.

Prepared by:
Sgt. Monte Mayer
Public Information Officer