Listen: Telephone scam costs Sheffield woman £10,000published at 10:38 Greenwich Mean Time 28 November 2017
Dan Green
BBC Radio Sheffield
A phone call claiming to be from a bank's fraud team resulted in Sarah Harper from Wadsley being tricked out of £10,000.
The money was part of an inheritance and the caller managed to persuade her that someone had been able to compromise her account and that she was at risk of losing it:
The BBC has put together this advice to help people avoid bank fraud.