hopefully no need to point out the dangers of badly maintained Gas equipment, it says many of the victims were elderly, they may have found victims amongst us too...

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/754246/0/

The Catalan police have arrested six people in the Baix Ebre allegedly related to a dozen scams revising the method of false gas, and in a week would have gotten $ 1,000 changing parts of the facilities where they are not damaged and sign maintenance contracts that customers were not asking.

Although the detainees worked for a company legally registered in the register of companies licensed to install gas, used illegal methods to deceive the victims, mainly elderly, who were unaware of the rules of such inspections.

The detainees, aged 24 and 46, wore a jumpsuit similar to reputable companies and saying they had to do a routine inspection, but very necessary, earned the trust of the victims identifying themselves as such in a document reviewers only informed of their membership of the company, a document that does not authorize them to work as technicians.

After reviewing the installation, if found defective and offered to repair at the time, in most cases was the change of regulator gas driving under the pretext that it was expired, something which the companies can not happen ever authorized .

Made the repair, they issued an invoice with prices considerably higher than the market and also charged them for future maintenance contracts that the victims had not asked.

The Mossos accuse the detainees, who went to court yesterday, made nine Roquetes, two in L'Ampolla and one in Tortosa.

The Catalan police recalled that gas installers must be properly credited and provide identification that identifies them as such, issued by the Government.