Please see https://cfa.nhs.uk/resources/downloads/fraud-awareness/covid-19/COVID-19_SMS_and_Text_Message_Scams.pdf
for advice about SMS/Text message scams that criminals are using during this current crisis.
Please see https://cfa.nhs.uk/resources/downloads/fraud-awareness/covid-19/COVID-19_SMS_and_Text_Message_Scams.pdf
for advice about SMS/Text message scams that criminals are using during this current crisis.
Please find attached the latest advice from the Metropolitan police regarding bogus callers:
We have had reports of people phoning and knocking on doors of local residents claiming to be from the NHS or Eastcote Residents Association, conducting surveys or selling facemasks. Please report any such contacts to the police.
Be aware that opportunists and criminals can take advantage of the elderly and vulnerable who are self-isolating. Anyone being offered “kindness” by cold callers by way of running errands, collecting prescriptions and doing shopping should not accept services from strangers who may ask for cash up front, a credit card and its PIN, or gain trust simply to execute a more elaborate scam e.g. to access savings.
Most people offering to help elderly people in their neighbourhood are genuinely kind, honest and caring. The elderly self-isolating will be stuck for food, supplies and someone to talk to if they don’t have friends, family or a nearby neighbour that they already know.
If everyone makes contact now with their nearest elderly neighbours who they already know and gives them their phone number and offer of help for when they need it, it will reduce the chances of them accepting help from a stranger who may turn out to be an opportunist, confidence trickster and thief.
If you need to reply regarding this message, tap on this email address: hillingdonnhw@gmail.com
Regards,
Dave Ludlow
Community Coordinator
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