Many quick striking con artists also like to confront very elderly home owners and angrily demand several thousand dollars for work they supposedly performed several months earlier. Threats of lawsuits, property liens or worse may be conveyed to these very frail home owners. Money is obtained for work that never was performed. Many times the fraud artists do this without being threatening or confrontational if they perceive that the elderly home owner has short- term memory problems. (“Sir, don’t you remember telling me to come back today to get paid?”)