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A scam artist left holes and sloppy gray putty on the side of St. Louis woman's car after promising to repair dents.

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Marianne Power (right) tells Fox 2 reporter Erika Tallan about her run in with a dent repair con man.

Doyle Murphy

Mary Samuelson's car was damaged by a fake auto body repairman who claimed he could fix dents.

Add another victim to the south St. Louis dent scam.A woman filling up her car at a Shell station on Hampton Avenue claims a man promising a cheap repair banged up her Chevy with a hammer and screwdriver, slathered it with gray putty and then charged her $95 for “fixing” the damage.“I have been violated,” Marianne Power said in an interview with Fox 2 . “I didn’t ask for this. It looks worse than it did before he started.”If Power’s story sounds familiar, it should. Her account of the brazen ripoff mirrors encounters others have reported to the Riverfront Times in recent months. In almost every case, a man approaches women in parking lots and claims he works for an auto body repair shop nearby. He offers to fix dents at a discount price, usually $90-$95, and quickly sets to work, sometimes before the victims can even tell him no.It’s not clear if the man who swindled Power is the same guy identified by other victims . We’ve reached out to her and will update if we learn more. (Power told Fox 2 she immediately contacted police, but they refused to take a report. Police told the station they didn’t pursue the case because Power had agreed to have the work done and changed her mind when she saw the results.