Dear All Access Panels
This warning has been sent to SDEF from Cali Laird at the Disability Service.
Kind regards
Moira Douglas, Access Administrator

Please find attached some information that may prove useful.  Passed from our colleagues in Social Work.

As duty worker today, I’ve received a VPR about an incident on Tues evening 28/4 where a visually impaired client has been targeted and been tricked out of a substantial sum.

At 5.50pm they received a convincing call from someone saying they were from Bank of Scotland, saying they had an improved card for customers who were Visually Impaired. He then asked the person to give details including pin, over the phone and said a courier would call to collect the card which she should put in an envelope. While she was still on the phone, the door bell rang, and it was the “courier”.By the time they checked with the bank the next morning they’d taken £7500!

The man on the phone spoke in a manner which suggested affluence/businessman and spoke with a Scottish accent. The “courier” was possibly eastern European  in late 20’s,5’ 3”, slim built wearing navy trousers and long sleeved navy fleece with unknown logo on left breast, and wearing a dark woolly hat. He was in a large white car.

Kind regards

Cali

Cali Laird
Administrator
Disability Service
Tel No. 01324 590870
e-mail: cali.laird@nhs.net