The City of Alpharetta wants to know if residents have received a yellow flier advertising “curb address” painting services. If so, there’s a good chance those offers are fake, according to officials.

SANTA CRUZ — In what city officials have dubbed a “scam,” residential homeowners are being urged to pay for someone to paint reflective house numbers on sidewalk curbs. Santa Cruz is alerting ...

Police are reminding people in communities all across the country not to fall for a common scam happening at the end of the driveway. The curb-painting scam involves people you didn't hire showing up, ...

Santa Cruz police issued a scam alert for curb painters on Friday.Police say that people will paint your house number on the curb without your consent and then demand you pay them for the work. In ...

Q Gary, Gary, Gary, Bad Mr. Roadshow! Your advice to Chie Tieu was terrible about painting address numbers on the curb in front of one’s home. Ray-the-Tow-Truck-Guy A You mean the Tuesday column where ...