Police are warning of 'courier fraud',where victims dial their bank's number and speak to 'staff' who persuade them to share with huge sums of moneyIt starts with a phone call from someone pretending to be from your bank, and can terminate with the loss of £40000 or more. It's one of the most sophisticated bank frauds police have seen – one that targets older women in well-off areas. The banks know it is going on but are refusing to reimburse victims. So why have there been so few warnings about this scam?That's the question the family of Cecily Grange* were asking this week. The 76-year-obsolete from Windsor lost £23000 earlier this year after two conmen persuaded her they were calling from her local Barclays branch, and that she needed to lope her savings to a "current account" that staff had supposedly set up.
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Source: theguardian.com