This type of scam I missed ... were from the gazette of 22/01/2011.
stop the band of holes
With a ploy to cheat unsuspecting citizens € 6 thousand 5- Saturday, January 22, 2011,
[snip] ... These gentlemen generally identified a parking space or a private yard with holes in the pavement, we had to the landlord, saying that a company that is working a short distance by truck and have advanced the work of asphalt. Since the high disposal costs give it preferred to fill the holes, charging only the workforce. Proponent and owner of the property is put so well on such small sums of money 10 euro per square meter for the filling of holes only. But the whole place came a team of workers, with trucks full of tar, bobcat, roller, which paved a good part of the parking lot or yard and the owners, at work concluded, could not help but pay a sum to be poor with asphalt 5,000 to 6,000 €, with all invoices addressed to the English firm with the same serial number: the 179. [... omitted]