Police and Trading Standards are appealing for information after two elderly women were conned out of thousands of pounds on their doorstep, leaving their property in poor condition.
The victims, who are in their late 70s, have been cold called at their home in the Leigham area of Plymouth on three different occasions and conned out of money.
Elderly residents in Devon and Cornwall are being urged to be wise to a phone fraud where victims are being duped out of cash by people posing as police officers.
The offenders are targeting older people across the region, particularly in the Torbay and South Devon area, as part of a national scam which is commonly known as a ‘courier fraud’.
Police are urging householders to be on their guard following incidents of a phone fraud where unsuspecting victims are duped by people posing as police.
In the latest incident on Tuesday, an elderly man from Paignton was duped out of £12,000 by someone posing as a police officer from the Metropolitan Police who claimed that someone had been arrested in possession of his bank cards....
