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Bogus caller crackdown

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Water companies, the Government and police have joined forces to launch a campaign to raise awareness of bogus caller crimes.

More than 12,000 bogus officials tried to trick themselves into people's homes last year and more than half were carried out by criminals pretending to be from a water company.

Don Pape, 79, had £2,500 stolen from him by bogus water officials, which he had been saving to pay for his funeral.

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