Brazen scammers are pretending to be police officers to con Dumfries and Galloway residents out of money.
The number of reported fraud incidents recorded in the region have risen by 250 percent over the past five years, and police are now desperately trying to crack down on online and telephone scams.
Chief Superintendent Carol McGuire, Dumfries and Galloway Police Commander, said: “Callers are really quite convincing and they coerce the victim to remove or transfer funds from their account.
