Overview
- Police report a recent increase citywide in trick-fraud and trick-theft at residential doors.
- Victims are chiefly older residents selected at home entrances.
- Offenders pose as handymen citing urgent water damage or contaminated drinking water.
- Others present themselves as criminal investigators claiming to check ties to alleged burglaries.
- Once inside, they distract residents while accomplices search for valuables, so police urge use of door chains and intercoms, prior announcements for workers, ID checks, contacting authorities, neighbor support, and calling 110 in emergencies.