Scammers threatened to shoot a Wigan man's dog if he did not pay them £500.
Nathan Swalwell, of Orrell, received a call from a private number, after his timid nine-year-old Shih Tzu cross Lexi vanished just before Christmas. Nathan said: “‘He told me, ‘I’ve got Lexi. Give us 500 quid or I’ll shoot it’.
"I told him to send me a picture and he said I had to pay £50 for it. I got the bank details and paid.
