Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) warning https://www.tradingstandards.uk/news-policy/news-room/2020/phoney-covid-marshals-targeting-doorsteps
Create a Winning Video for the TSI and Receive £1,000.
The Trading Standards Institute (TSI) is calling all amateur videographers, media students, filmmakers and directors to create a 90-second ‘Good Neighbours Stop Rogue Traders’ informational video. The video should be designed to encourage friends, family, neighbours and carers to help protect vulnerable citizens against doorstep crime. Creators of the winning video will receive a £1,000 […]
Woking Detectives Investigate Latest Scam after Woman Hands over Hundreds of Pounds
Detectives in Woking are investigating the latest scam which has come to light involving victims being asked to hand over money in order to claim Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) payments. A woman in her 70s who lives in Woking was targeted last month by a caller claiming to be from a PPI company and telling […]
Beware of Doorstep Sellers after the Stormy Weather
The Police have recorded an increase in doorstep crime over the last week. There have been incidents of residents in Bromley being approached by cold callers offering to clean out guttering, repair/maintain roofing etc. resulting in inflated prices being charged, and occasionally the resident has felt intimidated into agreeing further work. With the bad weather […]
Beware of Doorstep Sellers after Storms
The Police have recorded an increase in doorstep crime over the last week. There have been incidents of residents in Bromley being approached by cold callers offering to clean out guttering, repair/maintain roofing etc. resulting in inflated prices being charged, and occasionally the resident has felt intimidated into agreeing further work. With the bad weather […]