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We’ve heard reports that fraudsters are telephoning people, pretending to be from their local council, to con them into providing their bank details.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The callers refer to the government’s \u00a3150 council tax rebate, which was recently introduced to help people with their rising energy bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posing as a local council, they ask the person for their bank details. Our Trading Standards team flagged the scam this week. They said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s a scam. Councils would never cold call and ask for your bank details to make the payment. Never give your bank details to a cold caller.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For more information about the rebate, visit GOV.UK – Council tax rebate factsheet.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":56024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"featured_image":{"ID":56024,"title":"Phone scam","alt":"Man looking at his phone 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