Bogus charity collectors and pretend policemen have been operating in Oxford.
Collectors posing as representatives from well known charities have been asking for donations from residents in the Cowley area and stealing bags of donations left outside homes to be picked up by genuine charity workers.
A spokesperson for the British Heart Foundation criticised the thefts as “akin to robbing people with heart conditions of a better quality of life.”
The reports came after a series of burglaries in Oxfordshire last week, where thieves posing as police officers targeted the homes of old age pensioners.
A group of men claiming to be police officers searching for drugs entered the homes of two elderly residents. The men raided both houses before leaving with stolen cash, mobile phones as well as credit and debit cards.
