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Article: OAPs on alert over doorstep conmen CHELMSLEY WOOD Police plea after 'water board' tricksters steal pounds 2,000 savings
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- December 2, 2005
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ELDERLY residents were today warned to be on their guard against a
pair of conmen who are stealing cash from homes posing as water board
officials.
In the last few days two elderly women have been targeted and
thousands of pounds stolen by the duo, who wear blue overalls and
claim they have called to check water pipes and radiators.
In the worst incident, on November 7 in Chelmsley Wood, a
pensioner was robbed of her pounds 2,000 life-savings by the men who
called at the 90-year-old woman's home claiming they were
investigating a leak.
Detectives at Chelmsley Wood are linking the inci-dent with
another in Kingshurst on November 23 when a 97-year-old woman was
conned into letting the men ...