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Bitumen 'con men' targeting regional Australia leaving victims with shoddy work, big bills

Police say if the bitumen offer seems too good to be true, it probably is. (ABC Ballarat: Laura Mayers)

Victorian police are warning country residents of con men believed to be travelling across Australia promising cheap concrete and bitumen work and delivering a poor and incomplete product.

A decade ago, the Office of Fair Trading investigated similar reports of a dodgy door-to-door trader targeting residents in Nambour, Queensland.

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