Just to alert everyone that bogus callers are around Forest Hill and targeting the vulnerable.

Two men knocked on my elderly neighbour's door (he's in his eighties) at lunchtime yesterday and claimed that I had employed them to fix a leak in my roof - which they discovered was coming from his house. They demanded ?600 in cash from him in payment. He refused to pay them but was persuaded to give them his telephone number. Later, a man called him, claiming to be the boss and kept pressuring him to pay for the "repairs". Needless to say this was entirely bogus. My neighbour eventually realised that this was a con and telephoned the police. He told me all this when I came home last night. He was quite distressed by the whole experience and by the fact that he's given them his number. He wants to alert everyone to the presence of these scumbags. This isn't the first time he's been targeted by distraction burglars - he thinks that he may be on a "mugs list" and he might be right. I'm sure these scum share information about potential victims but this is the first time that they've claimed to be working for the next door neighbour - I guess to add credibility to their story.