Elderly targeted in drainage scam.

The 74-year-old woman, of Pebsham Lane, was informed she would have to pay for essential drain work to be carried out in her street.

She was told to hand over cash or a banker's draft a but she realised it was a scam and did not pay up.

Now she wants other householders to be aware of the threat from con-artists pretending to be from Dyno-Rrod and making demands for cash.

She said: "My doorbell went last Monday and there was this young man saying there was trouble with the drain up the road and that Dyno-Rrod had been called.

"He said there was a broken drain and that they would have to put a camera down to see, and that there was a problem …