Bogus trading standards officer scam warning
Householders are urged to be on their guard following reports that fraudsters, falsely claiming to be trading standards officers, are operating in Devon and Somerset.
Tag Archives: scam
Posted on: 5 April 2017 | Posted in: Community
Trading Standards, Police and Royal Mail join forces to protect residents from scam letters
20 residents in the Barnstaple area were identified as having been being potentially targeted by scams.
Posted on: 17 February 2017 | Posted in: Community
Company director who scammed pensioners convicted of fraud
A company director who offered to clean carpets at rock-bottom prices before hiking them up by 1,000 per cent has been found guilty of fraud.
Posted on: 27 September 2016 | Posted in: Community
Trading Standards & Royal Mail join forces against scams
Royal Mail and Devon & Somerset Trading Standards Service have joined forces to tackle scam mail in the postal system.
Posted on: 5 September 2016 | Posted in: Community
Bogus property repairers jailed for ripping off victims
Two rogue traders who conned vulnerable pensioners out of almost £100,000 have been jailed.
Posted on: 6 July 2016 | Posted in: Community
Trading Standards helps prevent elderly couple from losing their £1millon life savings
Trading standards officers and a major bank have prevented a vulnerable Mid Devon couple from being scammed out of their £1million life savings through a series of timeshare-related frauds.
Posted on: 5 July 2016 | Posted in: Environment
Guilty pleas for driveway scammers who targeted elderly residents
Bryan Ferren, 38 and Kevin Hogg, 41, both of Clifton Road, Paignton, admitted to conning over £70,000 out of 17 elderly Devon residents
Posted on: 18 May 2016 | Posted in: Community
Trading Standards lifts the lid on online car scam
Devon and Somerset Trading Standards Service is warning car buyers to be cautious when buying vehicles online
Posted on: 17 March 2016 | Posted in: Community
Carpet cleaner sentenced for fraud
A trader who travelled the country offering to clean householders’ carpets for rock-bottom prices before hiking his charges by up to 5,400 per cent, has been sentenced for seven offences
Posted on: 16 December 2015 | Posted in: Community
Father and son rogue traders convicted after targeting the elderly with drive laying scam
Father and son, Thomas Johnson, 57, and Tommy Johnson, 29, of Birtley Road, Guildford in Surrey, have pleaded guilty at Exeter Crown Court to a series of offences under the Fraud Act 2006, following an investigation by Devon and Somerset Trading Standards Service
Posted on: 26 August 2015 | Posted in: Community
