Warning - Bogus Police
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Warning - Bogus Police
Taken from http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/ 19/3/07
Couple targeted by bogus police
A CHADDERTON couple are warning residents not to be taken in by scam phone calls from a bogus police officer trying to lure them outside.
The wife was woken up at 2.30am by the caller who told her their car had been stolen and asked her to confirm her name and address.
When she did so he asked her to go outside, even though she could see their car on the drive.
He then changed tack and said that it had been involved in an accident and that it had possibly been switched.
She said: “I was advised to get my keys and go outside to check if it was my vehicle, but I woke my husband and gave him the phone while I used his business line to phone Greater Manchester Police.
“We were advised that we should ask the caller for his police collar number, which my husband did.
“When I relayed this to the police officer I was speaking to he told us to hang up as this was not a genuine police collar number.
“Even when told this, the bogus caller still tried to get us to go outside to check the car.
“Without a second phone line or a mobile to hand we would not have been able to check and there are people who could have been lured outside only to have the keys and car stolen or, worse, be injured in the process or have the house ransacked.
“I want to warn people not to be taken in by these calls.
“I had already given him my name and address and there could have been someone driving around nearby waiting for us to get out of the house.
“We don’t even have an expensive car like a BMW, just a four-year-old Ford Focus.”
Darron Tickle, Oldham Police crime reduction adviser, said: “We would advise residents to never give out their personal details over the phone unless they are 100 per cent sure who they are talking to.
“If you have any concerns about a suspicious phone call, hang up and call the police.
“If you can get the number of the caller, let the police have it when you call.”
A CHADDERTON couple are warning residents not to be taken in by scam phone calls from a bogus police officer trying to lure them outside.
The wife was woken up at 2.30am by the caller who told her their car had been stolen and asked her to confirm her name and address.
When she did so he asked her to go outside, even though she could see their car on the drive.
He then changed tack and said that it had been involved in an accident and that it had possibly been switched.
She said: “I was advised to get my keys and go outside to check if it was my vehicle, but I woke my husband and gave him the phone while I used his business line to phone Greater Manchester Police.
“We were advised that we should ask the caller for his police collar number, which my husband did.
“When I relayed this to the police officer I was speaking to he told us to hang up as this was not a genuine police collar number.
“Even when told this, the bogus caller still tried to get us to go outside to check the car.
“Without a second phone line or a mobile to hand we would not have been able to check and there are people who could have been lured outside only to have the keys and car stolen or, worse, be injured in the process or have the house ransacked.
“I want to warn people not to be taken in by these calls.
“I had already given him my name and address and there could have been someone driving around nearby waiting for us to get out of the house.
“We don’t even have an expensive car like a BMW, just a four-year-old Ford Focus.”
Darron Tickle, Oldham Police crime reduction adviser, said: “We would advise residents to never give out their personal details over the phone unless they are 100 per cent sure who they are talking to.
“If you have any concerns about a suspicious phone call, hang up and call the police.
“If you can get the number of the caller, let the police have it when you call.”
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Few years back my old man was woken by someone knocking on the front door in the middle of the night, he looked out of the window and a guy shouted up that the garage had been broken into and he had chased of two theives, but that they had been in the Jag.
He wanted my old man to come out and have a look.
Fortunately, my old man had spotted a second guy ducking down behind the fence.
he called the old bill and the guys fooked off.
Copper reckoned while he would have been in the garage looking at the jag with the first guy, the second would have gone into the house for a discount shopping spree.
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