Beware of this burglary ploy to identify your home as a target - Police and insurers are urging the public to be on the look out for a worrying new trend known as the “sticker scam”. After carrying out surveillance, transparent stickers, advertising, say, a bogus locksmith, are left on letterboxes to mark up the best prospects. The gang returns the next day and makes a clean sweep of those households targeted. “Be on the look out for any change in activity in your road, such as the arrival of teams of fly-droppers. By gently leaning on the front door, as they push the leaflets through the letter box, they can see which homes have good locks, and which are only secured with a Yale. They then put a transparent sticker on the letter box as a signal to their accomplices which home owners fail to spot when they return in the dark.”
Posted on: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:55:27 +0000
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