Police are investigating a frightening new variation of card fraud, which tricks people into handing over all their credit and debit cards on the doorstep. Victims are persuaded to cancel their cards, but when they try to phone their bank to do so, the person they end up talking to is the fraudster himself. He or she convinces them to hand their cards over to a courier, who calls at their door within the hour.

Police as far apart as London, Manchester and Glasgow are investigating similar cases. A nursing manager with the NHS is among those who have been tricked within the last two weeks. The woman, who lives in north London, did not want to be named

The scam
The con began when the nursing manager received a phone call from someone claiming to be a staff member at the Apple store in London's Regent Street. He explained that her grand-daughter was in the store, trying to spend £1,000 on a card he thought belonged to the hospital manager......Read more here