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BBC Rogue Trader who hunts down rogue traders is wanted over '£24,000 benefits fraud'
Dan Penteado, who chases down bogus workmen with presenter Matt Allwright on the Rogue Traders part of the show, has been charged with benefit and council tax fraud.
He is accused of pocketing more than £24,000 of government payouts he wasn't entitled to while he worked for the BBC.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159188/BBC-Watchdog-star-h...
The BBC needs to take its own advice and do a bit of research into who it employs!
I despise programmes like Roguetraders and this does little to change my mind.
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Permalink Reply by Graham Griffiths on -
Thats not the best! The most frustrating thing is the programmes cast all tradesmen in a bad light, for example taking a deposit is quite often neccessary, however they do quite frequently mention not to part with money until the job is done, I believe even staged payment is frowned upon, realistically I would have thought quite a few of us have to do this, I certainly do as my builders merchant account limit is lower than the materials, without stumping up the cash its very hard to get around it, I have evn turned 2 jobs down in 6 years for this very reason, as i have mentioned before there are many programmes out there with a similar nature but can anyone think of one that is aimed at rougue customers?
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Permalink Reply by Colin Hunt on -
Lets hope thats the last we hear of that pair! The idea of catching out the scammers is great, but the way they went about it was an insult to our intelligence - I think Allwright had a dressing up fetish.
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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Jen@A&J Owenwindows&gardens on -
Too true - many rogue customers out there! These programmes are too one sided and cast us all in a bad light - makes me very angry!
Graham Griffiths said:Thats not the best! The most frustrating thing is the programmes cast all tradesmen in a bad light, for example taking a deposit is quite often neccessary, however they do quite frequently mention not to part with money until the job is done, I believe even staged payment is frowned upon, realistically I would have thought quite a few of us have to do this, I certainly do as my builders merchant account limit is lower than the materials, without stumping up the cash its very hard to get around it, I have evn turned 2 jobs down in 6 years for this very reason, as i have mentioned before there are many programmes out there with a similar nature but can anyone think of one that is aimed at rougue customers?
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Permalink Reply by Andy Westacott on -
Couldn't agree more.
The deposit argument drives me mad, of course don't hand over every penny but how does a tradesman buy the materials for the job without a deposit - out of their own money, ridiculous.
I once heard Matt Allwrong advising people to ask their tradesman for copies of the receipts for materials to make sure they weren't being ripped off. Wrong in so many ways.
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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by andy@ Doughty Garden Maintenance on -
ha, what a joke!
not just our tax but our tv licence fee too.
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Permalink Reply by Colin Hunt on
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Do you not have monthly accounts with your suppliers, Andy? Materials used on say the 1st of the month dont have to be paid for nearly 2 months.
Andy Westacott said:The deposit argument drives me mad, of course don't hand over every penny but how does a tradesman buy the materials for the job without a deposit - out of their own money, ridiculous.
I once heard Matt Allwrong advising people to ask their tradesman for copies of the receipts for materials to make sure they weren't being ripped off. Wrong in so many ways.
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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Chris Auld on -
Haha, good one.
Andy Westacott said:Couldn't agree more.
The deposit argument drives me mad, of course don't hand over every penny but how does a tradesman buy the materials for the job without a deposit - out of their own money, ridiculous.
I once heard Matt Allwrong advising people to ask their tradesman for copies of the receipts for materials to make sure they weren't being ripped off. Wrong in so many ways.
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Premium SupplierPermalink Reply by Ofer El-hashahar on -
What? I had to read it twice as I thought my english was not good enough to understand it,
Sounds very stupid of him to do that, looks like he got a good job and now what , well done that it was proved.
this is the good side of recession ... a home clean of all these things.
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Permalink Reply by Fenlandphil on -
The Daily Mail, not my first choice for objective reporting, it will be interesting to see how it all ends.
Having said that there is often hypocrosy in those who preach to us, parliament and the churches are other good examples.
The issue of these programmes devaluing the trade or tradesmen in general is a real problem there seem to be no programmes promoting good work where names are named or people commended.
We have always taken deposits unless it is a stock item then it's payment on delivery, except of course regular trusted account customerx.
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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Trevor JH Knight on -
Phil how right you are...these programmes have very little to do with the truth, how about doing a programme about the fantastic work I see day in day out by hard working professionals in our industry giving them a platform to shine.
The BBC seems to have jumped on the band wagon with the rest of the cheap rate TV shows like Cowboy Builders, Dom Littlewoods Faking it, and they look over their shoulder and one of their own is faking it...I wonder if they will do a programme on him...I doubt it.
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Permalink Reply by Andy Westacott on
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Nope, never had accounts with my suppliers. Just a personal preference, I like all my financial ducks in a line before I buy any materials. Not saying it's the right way at all just my way (which probably infers it's the wrong way!).
Colin Hunt said:Do you not have monthly accounts with your suppliers, Andy? Materials used on say the 1st of the month dont have to be paid for nearly 2 months.
Andy Westacott said:The deposit argument drives me mad, of course don't hand over every penny but how does a tradesman buy the materials for the job without a deposit - out of their own money, ridiculous.
I once heard Matt Allwrong advising people to ask their tradesman for copies of the receipts for materials to make sure they weren't being ripped off. Wrong in so many ways.
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PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Phil Voice on -
BBC Rogue Traders' presenter Dan Penteado today pleaded guilty at Bournemouth to eight offences of council tax and housing benefit fraud totally £24,000.
Penteado was warned by the court that he could face jail and he was granted bail pending reports.
The prosecution, told how the offences went back to 2007 after Penteado filled in claims forms whilst not declaring bank accounts. He then repeated this fraud in subsequent years right up to 2011.
Over three years Penteado had been paid more than £56,000 for his work on Rogue Traders.
Penteado had initially brushed off the accusation of fraud as a misunderstanding saying there had been no warrant issued for is arrest.
The case was adjourned until July 17 at Bournemouth Magistrates' Court.
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