Trading Standards Upate - 25/06/2012

25/06/2012 Pensions Scam


A Warwickshire Trading Standards Officer recently took an unexpected call from a man called Derek who claimed he was entitled to £1000 under a pension scheme. The caller asked the Trading Standards Officer if he had ever taken out any private pensions and then asked for details. At that point the Trading Standards Officer asked the caller for the name of his company – and the line went dead!


Warwickshire Trading Standards advises consumers not to provide any personal or financial information to unexpected callers. If you believe the call to be genuine, ask for their name, company name and address and a publically listed telephone number to call them back on.


25/06/2012 Door to Door Lottery


Warwickshire Trading Standards are reminding residents to ask for identification if they are approached on the doorstep by charity collectors after reports of people going door to door in South Warwickshire selling lottery tickets.


Please feel free to cascade this information to whom ever you feel appropriate (including using the information in your newsletters/websites etc.). 

If you have any information you wish to provide to Warwickshire Trading Standards Service, either for our information, or to appear in future email alerts, please email me.

Simon Cripwell
Senior Information Officer
Trading Standards Service
Communities
Warwickshire County Council
tel. 01926 414039
mob. 07771 975570
email. simoncripwell@warwickshire.gov.uk
web. www.warwickshire.gov.uk
My normal working days are Monday to Thursday