Strathclyde Police Warning: TROUBLED COUNCIL IS HIT BY PHONE SCAM Other Associate Fraud
Crooks made thousands of pounds worth of calls after stealing sims from alarms.
Strathclyde Police Associates,
South Lanarkshire.
A FRAUD-HIT council has been forced...
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Strathclyde Police Warning: TROUBLED COUNCIL IS HIT BY PHONE SCAM Other Associate Fraud
Crooks made thousands of pounds worth of calls after stealing sims from alarms.
Strathclyde Police Associates,
South Lanarkshire.
A FRAUD-HIT council has been forced to call in police for the second time in six months after falling victim to a
sophisticated mobile phone scam.
Crooks have racked up thousands of pounds worth of calls at the taxpayers’ expense after stealing sim cards from
alarm systems installed by South Lanarkshire Council.
It comes just months after the authority, which is facing £55million worth of budget cuts, was stung for more than
£100,000 by an African crime gang after officials were duped into paying money into a bogus account.
But now police have been called in again after thieves stole 17 sim cards from residential alarm systems from the
homes of elderly and disabled people.
The cards were designed to call only the authority’s social work department if the alarm was t
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