20/11/2012 Aggressive Caller
A
Leamington Spa business has received an unexpected aggressive phone
call. The phone call was reported to Warwickshire Trading Standards.
The
caller asked the trader who his gas supplier was and the trader told
the caller he was a business. The caller then told that trader that
because he was being ‘uncooperative’ his electricity and gas would be
cut off within 24hrs and he would have to pay £100 to have it
reconnected. The trader checked with his supplier who confirmed it was a
scam, probably designed to get him to agree to change his energy
supplier.
20/11/2012 Suspected loan shark arrested following operation in Stratford- upon- Avon.
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55 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of illegal money
lending, following an operation in Stratford-upon-Avon yesterday
morning.
The
England Illegal Money Lending Team, working in partnership with
Warwickshire County Council Trading Standards executed a warrant at a
residential property seizing cash.
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Warwickshire Trading Standards Service, either for our information, or
to appear in future email alerts, please email me.
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Simon Cripwell
Trading Standards Officer
Warwickshire Trading Standards Service
Communities
Warwickshire County Council
Old Budbrooke Road Warwick CV35 7DP
tel. 01926 414039
mob. 07771 975570
My normal working days are Monday to Thursday
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