When a 99 year old WWII veteran was scammed, NC5 viewers, businesses stepped up [Video]

SMYRNA, Tenn. (WTVF) — Scamming someone out of their hard-earned money is despicable, no matter who they are. But three months ago, I reported on a 99 year old World War II veteran, who says a contractor ripped him off.

All Almus Raymer wanted was a screened-in porch. Instead he got a nightmare situation. “This has not been nothing but ugly since day one,” said Sandra Beard. Almus’s daughter.

A new contractor, Mark Crawford, was brought in to see if any of the initial work was salvageable. It wasn’t. So Mark, a Navy veteran himself, decided he would build him a new porch, for free.

That was around the time I wrote our first story on Almus’s plight.

A 99-year-old WWII veteran says he was scammed by a contractor. How the community is stepping up.

Moments after the story aired and was posted online, the calls flooded in.

“Thanks to you guys, it blew up,” explained Crawford. “We started getting more and more …