Credit Card Conmen Targeting Royston

There have been innumerable cases of credit card frauds in the past and in spite of strong efforts they just cease to stop. In the most recent of such cases, conmen have been targeting the flats in Royston. Police have warned the public to be wary of people acting suspicious.

The warning comes after two incidents in the neighborhood were reported in the recent weeks. The police suspect that fraudsters are applying for credit cards with false addresses. They later manage to collect the credit card that gets delivered to the said address. The first incident was reported to have occurred in the flats situated in Woodcock Road, Royston. A resident from the area reported that he received a credit card which carried his name but had not applied for the same. It was later followed by a PIN number for a card he had not received.

The resident who reported the incident also said that his communal letter box was filled with junk mail around the time the incident was reported. This seems to be a part of the plot of the conmen. It is suspected that the conmen fill the communal letter boxes with newspapers and junk mails so that the relevant mails do not fit into the box and hence they can lay their hands on the mail easily. Following this and one other similar incident, the police have specifically warned those with communal letter boxes to check their letter boxes each day and keep it free for new posts. This way you can ensure that the new posts are posted into the letterbox and do not reach wrong hands.

The Royston Neighborhood Sergeant Jon Vine confirmed that two such incidents had been reported. He indicated that two black males were reported to have been seen in the neighborhood. The males moving around in the neighborhood were reported to be acting in a suspicious manner. The Sergeant has also requested the public to co-operate by reporting any suspicious activity in the area by making the relevant phone numbers available to the people in the area. In cases where any person is in the spot where the activity is taking place, he is requested to directly call 999 and report the same at the earliest.

It is up to the public to take responsibility, stay vigilant and avoid making themselves the target of such attempts by conmen.