Cheshire Police had two incidents of phone scams reported to them on Monday, 10th February.
One incident occurred in Wilmslow and the other in Knutsford, where calls were received from a male purporting to be a detective from Leeds Police. The purpose of his call was to advise them that a male had been detained by the police who was in possession of their credit card details.When the recipients became suspicious the male advised them to ring 901 and gave them a reference number of 329AC.
A police spokesperson said "Please be aware of this and should you receive such a call, terminate it immediately and report the incident to Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040."
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I remember last March a letter asking for around £1500 , in return I was to have my bins emptied all year, have street lighting in dark hours, streets cleaned,roads and pavements maintained and the streets policed, those behind this one called themselves Cheshire East Council.