Wiltshire warning over high-value scam using courier - BBC

A "high-value scam" involving a courier is being utilized against susceptible people, constabulary person warned.

Wiltshire Police said it involves a telephone telephone from a fake constabulary bureau oregon a slope worker, and a courier being sent to the victim's home.

Three radical successful the Warminster country person already been taken successful by the scam, the unit said.

"The constabulary volition ne'er inquire for your slope details implicit the phone," warned PC Chris Hemns.

"Victims are receiving a telephone telephone from idiosyncratic selling a communicative of them being constabulary officers oregon slope workers trying to look astatine either fake notes being passed, and they're aft your help, oregon they accidental they are constabulary officers who are investigating idiosyncratic that's been arrested who has a precise akin sanction to yours, and they've got a slope paper successful your name," helium added.

"This is termed courier fraud due to the fact that they volition nonstop idiosyncratic to your location to cod the wealth oregon your slope card."

PC Hemns said that anyone who took a telephone telephone similar this should halt for a fewer moments and inquire themselves if it sounded genuine.

"They [bank staff] whitethorn inquire information questions, arsenic a batch of banks do, but they would ne'er inquire you to gully retired wealth oregon manus implicit wealth oregon manus implicit slope cards," helium said.

The unit said radical targeted by the scam should inquire for the collar fig of the officer, and telephone them backmost aft a five-minutes utilizing 101 - not the fig they person provided.

The aforesaid would use to a telephone pretending to beryllium from a slope - radical should telephone the slope backmost via their main telephone numbers.

Wiltshire Police said the radical down the scam are "professional and persuasive" and whitethorn already person immoderate of the idiosyncratic information of the radical they target.