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Can you help protect your friends and family from courier fraud?
Police are urging residents to check in with their vulnerable friends and family and make sure they are scam aware following a further six incidents of courier fraud reported in Great Yarmouth yesterday (14 January 2025).
Six people received calls yesterday afternoon claiming to be an officer from ‘Great Yarmouth Police Station’ and ‘Howard Street Police Station’. One caller did also claim to be from ‘Scotland Yard’. They have provided false names and collar numbers to the victims before using various stories to try to gain their bank details or encourage them to withdraw sums of cash for collection by a courier.
Two victims were told their cards had been used fraudulently in a local supermarket and they needed to provide their bank details to verify the transactions. Another two victims were told that there had been fraudulent transactions on their account but the fraudsters were not specific about where and when these supposed transactions had taken place.
Two victims were told to attend their local banks as a part of a fraud investigation and withdraw money from their accounts which would then be collected later in the day.
All of the attempts were unsuccessful.
Remember, the police will NEVER ask you to withdraw/send money or purchase items.
If you have doubts about the person who called you, hang up and wait five minutes before calling back on 101; there have been cases of fraudsters keeping the line open after a victim has hung up, so leaving several minutes between calls will make sure that the call has closed.
More information on how to check an officer’s identity can be found here.
Further advice includes:
For more details about door-to-door and courier fraud, please visit: Door-to-door and courier fraud | Norfolk Constabulary