A woman in her 80's, in Bury St Edmunds, has been scammed out of around £55,000 by telephone fraudsters. The lady wishes to remain anonymous but what we can tell you is that she is in her 80's, lives alone and her husband unwell in care. She has lost everything.
The incident was reported to police on Tuesday 10 March, by a bank in Bury St Edmunds, after a woman, aged in her 80s, from a nearby village, was persuaded to transfer a large sum of money by telephone scammers pretending to be from the fraud department.
The woman was also persuaded to withdraw some of the cash and it was later collected by a female courier.