Hello,

Last night around 7.30 pm, a door salesman appeared at my property.
He was a young guy,who explained he was selling household goods as part of a youth offenders rehabilitation program. I felt sorry for him,especially when he explained that this was his work experience and he needed to do this in order to get a job reference etc. It was cold so I dealt with him in my doorway, after searching through his box of household cleaning products(mostly overpriced) I picked out a few items and paid him(more then I want to admit to,might I add).
He had a laminated I,d card and the items had stuck on Logo's for the scheme,so alarm bells did not immediately ring,nor did he come across as creepy.
However,when I told my partner about this,they were certain it was a scam and alerted me to the fact the guy was probably casing the area.
I usually follow my gut with people and this guy seemed safe enough,but I thought I should google it to see if anything came up,NOW I WISH I DIDNT,there's a lot of police alerts for these same scammers and also plenty of forums about other peoples bad experience with them.So now I'm a little worried, I mean I hope it's enough that I just paid the guy,but in hindsight he was stood in my home,which admittedly was foolish on my part.
So I was wondering if anybody else in forest hill had this experience this evening or whether it's necessary to alert the local authorities to their presence.I know he did not do anything personally to me, but what if it is a crime gang casing the area for vulnerable people?
Any ideas?

Update: I forwarded this onto the forest hill safer neighbourhood department, figured it's better to be safe then sorry.

Louise