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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

Ministers targeted by hoax calls pretending to be British citizens captured by Russia

Hoax callers are targeting ministers and pretending to be British citizens captured by Russia in Ukraine, it emerged today.

Cabinet Office security officials are understood to have sent an e-mail warning staff in Cabinet ministers’ private offices.

According to the Independent, staff were urged not to engage with callers impersonating supposed prisoners of war.

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