More than £200,000 has been stolen from people in care homes in Norfolk by scammers posing as police or bank employee couriers.
New police data shows that people over the age of 70 are being disproportionately targeted by courier fraud.
Action Fraud received 39 reports in Norfolk the past year with victims losing £206,680.
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The reports were linked to courier fraudsters targeting retirement homes, care homes and buildings that provided assisted living.
The victims are often some of the county's most vulnerable and oldest members of society.
Detective Chief Inspector Lee Parish, from the fraud operations team at City of London Police, said: "This is a devastating crime that preys on vulnerable and often older people.
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"Millions of pounds of hard-earned pensions and savings are being stolen each year and we are concentrating efforts to stop courier fraud at the source."
Courier fraud is a scam that preys on the trust and vulnerability of individuals.
Scammers employ tactics to make victims believe they are assisting the police or employees from their bank, forcing them to with withdraw large sums of money from their bank accounts.
