Couple: We Were Scammed Out of Thousands

PERRY COUNTY A couple looking to get their driveway paved says they were swindled out of nearly $10,000. They're sharing their story in hopes of protecting of others.

A truck showed up outside the couple's rural Tamaroa home a month ago. The crew offered to pave the driveway for a good price. The job was done in a matter of hours, but it cost 10 times what they expected.

We're wiped out. Now I have nothing to fall back on, admitted Lu Ann Morris.

She lives on a fixed income of $639 a month with her husband Charles. On April 8, they got a knock on the door from All Rite Paving

I thought it was a city worker. Next thing I know they talked him into doing this without an estimate or anything they just said $2.00 a square foot. Did not give us any measurements, nothing, she explained

Turns out the job cost much more than they bargained for.

I don't know how I didn't pass out when they said $9,700, added Lu Ann.

Her husband is in the beginning stages of dementia and thought the job cost $970. She maxed out her credit card to pay the bill, and then started looking for help.

I was hyperventilating. I was having anxiety attacks. I didn't know where to turn. Everybody was turning us down; I didn't know what to do, she said.

Just a month later, weeds are already growing up through the gravel. Lu Ann says the company has yet to fix it. She's filed a police report, reached out to the state's attorney, and complained to consumer protection agencies.

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Couple: We Were Scammed Out of Thousands