I moved to Australia from America and within months I fell for a scam I thought died off in the 70s

A young American woman has been left red-faced after being tricked by a door-to-door salesman just five months after moving Down Under.

The woman said she was approached in her driveway by a young, handsome man who offered to clean her carpets for free.

She stumbled and explained that she only had tiles, hoping to get rid of the seller without confrontation, but instead he booked an appointment to clean it the following Sunday.

As part of the man’s initial pitch, the man, in his early 20s, offered the woman a company flyer, told her she qualified for a free cleaning and would be entered into a drawing for $1,000.

Taking to Reddit, the woman said she was mortified by the encounter and spoke to her husband, who revealed it was a “scam.”

“He says, ‘Yes, those are the vacuum scammers, they go to every house, you won nothing, they want you to buy cleaning equipment, you get nothing,’” she wrote.

She then asked what she should do at 2pm on Sunday when the young man, or his friends, returned to do the ‘cleaning’.

“I feel terrible, at first I honestly thought it was a community giveaway or something for charity like the free car washes,” she said.

She added that she is afraid of calling the company to cancel the appointment and is also afraid of being “jumped” by the cleaners.

People were quick to comment on the thread, slamming the American for being naive and giving her advice for negotiating in the coming days.

“Open the door with a mask on and tell them you tested positive (for Covid),” one woman said.

“Don’t even open the door. Just shout through them and then go away and ignore them,” said another.

“I would just sell and move,” another suggested.

Others told her she no longer has floors and doesn’t need their services.

While someone told her she should get a ‘do not knock’ sticker because companies must comply or risk fines

Some said she should “go to therapy” to learn to say no to people who try to sell her things she doesn’t want.

‘Learn the most important skill for adults: calm assertiveness. Do the therapy, research and practice the strategies. She is sabotaging her own life,” one person advised.

Some were disappointed that there was no “love story for door-to-door salesmen” and accused her headline of being misleading.

“I fell for a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman,” read the first headline.

“It’s not the ‘fall for’ I was hoping for,” one woman complained, echoing dozens of comments.

Some were only too happy to offer their own romantic stories.

“About twenty years ago, a Kirby salesman offered to clean my carpet for free. “I had a dog that kept peeing on the carpet, so I said yes, please,” one woman began her story.

One woman said she had to put this sticker on the door to prevent further encounters

She said the man “lingered” after showing off his carpet cleaner.

‘I gave him a glass of wine at the start. After a while he asked very awkwardly if he could spend the night with me. “He was gorgeous, and I was single and living in a small gossip town with no talent, so I said yes,” she said.

‘Everyone had a great evening and I was happy to say goodbye to him the next day.’

She added that her cousins ​​have since made increasingly clean jokes to her.

Some people warned that they have worked for similar companies.

‘The cleaning they are going to do is about one meter by one meter. Don’t buy things that are too expensive,” someone said.