Mary Staunton

And then you have people cold calling.

Now, my mum and dad know really, you know, they used to say to us, don't open the door to, you know, such and such.

Make sure you don't let anybody in.

And it was just a weak moment.

And then the embarrassment of letting somebody in.

And the amount of text, Clare, that I've got off people to say, my aunt or my father let somebody in and he didn't tell us for a few days.

He was so embarrassed.

He couldn't believe he did it.

You know, all this sort of thing.

And I'm really emotional about it because I just think,

we've stopped.

It's not that we've stopped.

We have really good neighbours, but we really need to be keeping a close eye on what's going on in our neighbourhoods.

Yeah, well, I suppose you see your parents being exposed and a little bit vulnerable, and that's really hard to think that there are people out there who will prey on them.

That's what makes it really upsetting.

And, you know, you've put up the... I know you've talked about this on social media, but I see the leaflet that they had.

I mean, this was a pro job.

This was...

This was really well done, but there's no doubt in your mind that these guys were scammers.

Oh, without a shadow of a doubt, the website was fake for a start.