I've seen stories about scammers on the Lynchburg news several times, usually somebody offering to do some type of work real cheap, then they take your money for doing little or nothing- replacing shingles and paving driveways are two common ones. They have some material left over from the last job, you'd be doing them a favor if they could use the leftover asphalt to pave your driveway, just pay for the material used. They especially like to prey on the elderly. I talked to my Mom on the phone last night- i've heard her say maybe half a dozen cuss words my whole life, and I think she doubled the total last night. The driveway paving con artist lowlifes got her and Daddy for $6600. She was hot too, and mad at herself for falling for it. They live in Cumberland county, closer to Richmond than Lynchburg. The paving company was out of Appomattox,Va. They're both right around 80 years old, and it makes me so mad I could...well, never mind. My son stopped by when the crooks were there. When the sheriff came later he asked him why didn't he run them off. He said "because there was like 9 of them and only one of me". He's been driving a dump truck for a long time, and worked on paving many miles of highways around Richmond, so he knows a lot about the paving binness, and he said they used about $300 worth of material on the driveway. And they took Ma's check straight to the bank and cashed it, so she didn't have time to stop payment on it. She said the commonwealth's attorney in Cumberland said they didn't do anything illegal, but they lied to her from the start about what they were going to do and how much it would cost, so that's some kind of fraud, or doing business under false pretenses or something. And she said a young boy stopped there at first, and he was so nice and polite...i'd like to see his ass swinging off a bridge somewhere...by a rope attached to his neck.