At 10am this morning, Wednesday 17th November, a female described as being of Eastern European appearance, has been wandering around the supermarket car park in Chapel-en-le-Frith, High Peak, approaching people and asking if they want to buy gold rings. She has also been also looking into parked cars. She is wearing a brown head scarf, dark complexion, dark hair, wearing a grey 3/4 length coat and a checked skirt. Incident number: 163 of 17.11.10.

Police have received several reports of persons in a silver BMW saloon and possibly an Audi Estate flagging motorists down by a male, persistently asking for money and petrol. Excuses made have been that they needed petrol as they had run out and had a baby in the car, or asking for money as his wife is sick, etc, and offering gold rings. Locations where motorists have been flagged down are: B5056, Grangemill stretch, A52 Ashbourne, B5023 Wirksworth stretch. Incident number: 451 of 15.11.10 & Incident numbers: 320, 687 of 16.11.10.

Don’t become a victim of these scams which have done the rounds before!

Anyone with information should call 0345 123 33 33, quoting the relevant incident number.

Please be vigilant and report any suspicious activity to the police.