Mike Hedges
There are many different types of scam—the internet and technology have made it much easier to attempt scams. As the First Minister just said, many of them start off abroad in countries with limited laws to deal with it. In part of Morriston, the Clasemont Park area, a no-cold-calling zone has been set up, which has made a huge difference to the lives of the people living there. Will the First Minister support the development of more no-cold-calling zones in Wales in order to stop one of the most common scams of cold calling and demanding huge sums of money for little or no work?
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Carwyn Jones The First Minister
Well, yes, the old story of ‘your chimney is falling down, so therefore I can fix it for you for an enormous amount of money’—that was one of the oldest scams in the book. That, unfortunately, is still continuing, and many vulnerable elderly people particularly do fall prey to that kind of scam. I can say first of all that the number of homes covered by no-cold-calling zones is about 38,000, and the Minister, indeed, issued a written statement on 4 February to inform Members of this. But, of course, we will look at ways of extending no-cold-calling zones in the future whilst at the same time looking to lobby the UK Government to tighten up the law particularly with telephone cold calling
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