POLICE at Lymm have issued a warning after receiving multiple reports of males knocking on doors claiming to be from a prison rehabilitation scheme and trying to sell items on doorsteps.
The scam is usually carried out by young men, who go door to door selling household products.
They carry a fake ID and claim to be recently out of prison or on probation and laim that this is a legitimate rehabilitation scheme.
The reality is the household goods are supplied by a man who employs them. A group of young men is dropped off to work an area, and then collected by the same man later that day.
The knockers’ role is to establish where elderly or vulnerable people live, and this information is then sold on to other criminals. If they come to your door, the advice from the police is to phone 101 to report them. However persistent they are with their hard-luck stories, do not buy from them.
Further details on how to avoid such scams can be found HERE
