Hotel Scam of the Day
January 29th, 2010
Scam of the Day: Sherry Lynn Vertoch has been arraigned this week for racking up an unpaid bill of $55,000 while staying for two years at the Inn Marin (oh, clever name). How did a hotel let her get away with this, when I get the bum’s rush twenty minute’s before check-out time? Simple. She claimed to be a federal agent working for the Internal Revenue Service, and that she couldn’t pay her mounting tab until her investigation came to an end. Why does this work? Who wants to trigger an audit by evicting an IRS agent?