Home Services Marketplace Sends an Unlicensed, Unverified Worker Who Impersonates the Assigned Contractor
A customer reports that the person who showed up for a scheduled home service was not the licensed contractor assigned, had no visible license, and falsely claimed to be the assigned worker. This points to a gap in identity verification between marketplace booking and who actually arrives on-site.
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