Crime round-up

A VEHICLE has been broken into at Ilam.

Between 3pm and 6pm on Wednesday, June 24, a vehicle was broken into while left unattended on Dovedale car park, Ilam.

A laptop, mobile telephone and headphones were stolen.

Police are urging motorists not leave valuables, not even if they are hidden in vehicles.

If anyone has any information in relation to the theft please make contact via telephone 101, facebook or twitter quoting incident number 391 of 25/06/2020.

▶ A lady had her purse stolen from her handbag while out shopping on Wednesday, June 24 in Biddulph town centre. Her bank card has then been used at various locations. Police are asking local residents to be extra vigilant with your belongings and aware of your surroundings.

If anyone has any information about the incident please contact Staffordshire Police on 101 and quote reference number 21200017098.

▶ Action Fraud has received more than 2,600 reports about emails purporting to be from British Gas. The emails threaten to disconnect the recipient’s gas service if an outstanding bill is not paid.

The links in the emails lead to genuine-looking phishing websites that are designed to steal personal and financial details.

Your bank, or any other official organisation, won’t ask you to share personal information over email or text. If you need to check that it’s a genuine message, call them directly using a trusted phone number you already have from previous correspondence.

If you’ve spotted a suspicious email forward it to the Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) on report@phishing.gov.uk

Anyone with information on any incident please contact Staffordshire Police on the

101 number.

Alternatively, witnesses can contact Crimestoppers, which is an independent charity helping law enforcement to locate criminals and help solve crimes. They can be contacted anonymously 24/7 on 0800 555 111.