Itinerant contractors who strike a victim once and move on quickly, unlike the fraud artists described in previous Senior Citizen Home Repair Scams, perform this scam. They approach an elderly home owner, state that they have been paving another driveway in the neighborhood, claim that they have unused paving material, and offer what they claim is an excellent deal on paving the elderly home owner’s driveway. The driveway is then coated with an oily substance or a very thin layer of asphalt. The new surface of the driveway crumbles or washes away after a few days. The payment typically demanded ranges from $3000 to $6000.