Crime Prevention Advice – Cold Calling and other Scam Fraud Awareness

Dear West Putney residents,

There have been recent concerns made to the West Putney Safer Neighbourhood Team about individuals going door to door and offering services in an attempt to sell fake or faulty goods, offer services such as repair or cleaning of roof tiles or pathways or to gather information about your property or yourself. 

Please be aware of anyone coming to your property to offer these services and take the steps to help prevent any incidents from happening to you or your property. Some advice we can give now is to:
 

Further information can be found here if you wish to seek further advice or understand the methods scammers use to target vulnerable people.

If you would like to report a crime call 101, in an emergency always call 999. If you would like to report online, click on this link: https://www.met.police.uk/ro/report

Kind regards,

West Putney Safer Neighbourhoods Team