Scammers posing as police officers try to steal £10,000 from elderley man
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAn elderly man narrowly avoided being scammed out of £10,000 thanks to the help of a police officer and a slice of luck. The man had been contacted by a criminal claiming to be an officer from Derbyshire police.
The scammer told him that his bank card had been compromised and then sent a mobile phone to his address so they could contact him further.
The next day, they told the man to go to the bank and withdraw £10,000 with the cover story of buying a car. By chance on the way to the bank in Nottingham, the phone ran out of battery so the man popped into a police station in the city centre to ask to charge it.
Once there, he was spoken to by an officer from Nottinghamshire Police and the phone was seized. READ MORE: Man charged after police called to reports of person with knife in south Manchester The man has also been offered support and advice by fraud protect officers from Derbyshire Constabulary.
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