As many of you may already know, I reside in Jacksonville. We are a big bustling city with many features and many downfalls such as rampant crime.
Some of you might have heard on News4Jax on Tuesday there is an insurance scam plaguing the city. I knew about it because they tried to scam me on September 2, 2015 and I reported it to the police.Long story short, people came to my house and said they wanted to show me the damage the recent construction in Jacksonville has done to my windshield. They walked me out to my car in the driveway, pointed out dings that could have been from who knows what and tried to tell me it was from the road construction and they were going to get it fixed because insurance companies in Florida replace windshields for free. Coincidentally they worked for a glass repair company as well.
What happened from there is they tried to pressure me into changing out my car windshield and proceeded to contact my insurance company and told me they would handle everything including filing the claim. Well, I didn’t buy it. Granted I only wasted a semester of my life in law school but I know insurance fraud when I see it. I made them leave me a copy of their estimate/invoice which I still have but have decided not to release it to the public at this time.
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After I finally got the people off my property first thing I did was call my insurance company and reported it. They subsequently flagged the mischievous company in their system. Next, I contacted the non-emergency number for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s department who put me in contact with an officer who also agreed it was insurance fraud. That officer instructed me to request an officer come to the scene so they could catch the offenders and question their conduct. I waited an hour for not one but two officers to show up. After explaining my story to them and providing them with the evidence (estimate/invoice) that responding officer told me it was not insurance fraud and they were allowed to go door to door trying to convince people to change their windshields.
On Tuesday I heard on the news the insurance fraud scam has been rampant in Jacksonville and I am disappointed because I alerted the authorities about it and to my knowledge they never contacted the company or made contact with the employees to curb their fraudulent behaivor.
After hearing of the news I posted the following on Facebook and tagged Mayor Lenny Curry in it in hopes he would address the situation. He quickly untagged himself which in itself is very unfortunate.Bottom line is: we are taxpayers and when we bring attention to a matter in hopes of saving others from harm we expect our information to be processed and the matter to be addressed. This is an unfortunate situation that could have been avoided if citizens were not ignored.