Rother Police investigating after bogus officer forces couple to withdraw £13,000
Hastings and Rother Police are investigating after an elderly couple lost £13,000 when a bogus caller pretended to be a police officer and got them to withdraw cash from their accounts.
On June 25, the man phoned the couple from Rye, claiming to be from the ‘Metropolitan Police fraud squad’, according to police.
Police said over the next six days he convinced them to go twice to a bank and withdraw a total of £13,000, telling them it was necessary as part of an investigation into fraud within their own bank’s HQ in London.