Man arrested on suspicion of courier fraud in Andover

A man has been arrested following a report of courier fraud in Andover.

Hampshire Police say they were called out on Monday night (9 June) by a woman who said a man had turned up at her home asking for her bank card.

The victim had been called earlier that afternoon by someone who claimed to be from the fraud team at Nationwide, and kept her on the phone for several hours to query a payment that they said had been set up on her account.

During the course of the phone call, a man knocked at her door asking to take her bank card as part of those enquiries.

The woman declined and was able to call the police. Officers attended and a 25-year-old man from London was arrested on suspicion of fraud by false representation.

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