Hello. Looking for advice. My elderly, partially sighted mother in law received a cold call at her door yesterday from a chap with a Sky lanyard. He said that her dish cabling was old and copper and needed replaced and he'd arrange for it to be done on Friday at 2pm for free.
The guy then went next door and tried to entice them with a new sky package.
This has sent warning bells and I tried to ring Sky to check if this was legitimate but the call centre chap was of little, in fact no, help!
Normally I'd just turn up at the time stated and check it out myself but my wife and I need to be at an important hospital appointment at the same time.
what is the likely authenticity of this? Should I tell her to simply not answer the door or just tell him she's changed her mind? I'm concerned because she has a bit of a history of falling for the gift of the gab and has narrowly avoided being scammed a few times in spite of our warnings to say no, don't trust cold callers, etc.
