Cold Caller Offered Trees to Person With no Garden

The Police are advising residents to be wary of cold callers after reports of people offering to do odd jobs in Onchan.

Direct cold calling is illegal on the Isle of Man.

One of the reports included a strange (read idiotic) attempt to offer trees to a property owner that didn’t have a garden.

The Cops said: ‘Obviously this type of report comes across as suspicious, therefore we are asking the public to be vigilant in looking after their homes and property and also to keep an eye on any neighbours that could possibly be vulnerable to any such approaches.

The advice regarding ‘cold calling’ is that a leaflet or information price list posted through your door is fine, but nobody is allowed to personally solicit work by knocking on your door or talking to you at your address.

The onus for making contact with any workers is always with the homeowner, not the other way around.

Should you have contact with anything stated above please contact the Office of Fair Trading on 686500, or the police should the circumstances require that.