25-09-2020 16:10 via avonandsomerset.police.uk

Alert over telephone fraudsters

We’re urging people to be on the alert to a telephone fraud in which scammers claim to be from banks’ own fraud teams. Officers were called to a bank in Thornbury on Tuesday 15 September by staff concerned about a customer’s transaction. It transpired the man had been contacted by fraudsters through a phone call to an elderly relative whose money he manages. The conman told him the accounts were...
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