AIBU not to pay this? WWYD?

[InALonelyWorld]

I just want to know if IABU here or what i should do.

I have come home from work today to a note from a gardener saying I owe them £10 for de-weeding my garden. To note my garden is mainly paving slabs/stones so there isnt much weeding that needs done in the first place so not sure how it would even be £10. However, this isnt a service i arranged, I do not know this person and I obviously was not around at home to speak to them or even give permission for them to do anything with my garden but they have gone and done it anyways.

I am a lone parent household and am now worried I will be pestered by this stranger for this money i apparently owe. I do admit I may be overreacting here, but i, like many people, am financially strained at the moment. I was recently burgled which added to my financial issues and has probably made me quite sensitive to receiving this note.

It does seem very strange. When my daughter lived on her own she would regularly come home and her hedges had been cut. They never asked for payment and we never found out who it was.

This is a common scam!

Someone tried to get my disabled uncle (who lives in an old people bungalow area) they knocked on his door and told him that they had trimmed the rose bush in the garden for his neighbour and had trimmed the other half of the bush which was in his garden and he owed them £150! My uncle was very worried, he has barely two pennies to rub together after his expenses for the month as hes on benefits and the man apparently came into his house and was pointing out the back window to where he'd done the work and saying it should have been £250 but he'd knocked money off but it would go up if he didnt' get it within a month.
My uncle explained he didn't have the money and didn't get paid for 2 weeks anyway but still wouldn't have the full amount then, got very flustered and the bloke said he would be back in 2 weeks.
We contacted the police who said that he was to ring them if he came back. Well he spoke to his neighbour and they had done the exact same scam on them about the bush but they had instantly known that my uncle wouldn't have been able to afford it.

When they came back knocking literally 2 weeks later his neighbour went out whilst my uncle phoned the police and had stern words and they left but it left my uncle very unsettled and we were worried about him.

I think it's easy to underestimate how vulnerable single people with no support can feel in their own home. I live somewhere slightly dodgy and report anything potentially shifty. My doorbell catches passers by too, it got the burglars three doors down as they walked by.

I had a guy calling wanting to wash my windows. He said my neighbour Rachel had got hers done.
My neighbour is Rachel.
I said no thanks.
Rang Rachel.
Yes he had called to her.
No she hadn’t got her windows washed by him.
But he asked her what her name was.
And she told him.
FFS 🙄
He didn’t even have a ladder with him