Sussex retailers are warned to beware of tricksters following two reported fraud incidents in Uckfield over the weekend. The incidents on Saturday October 31 involved a type of fraud referred to as 'ringing the changes', where someone asks for a sum of money to be changed into notes of a smaller denomination.While the cashier or shop assistant is doing this, the trickster deliberately confuses them in order to obtain more money than they handed over in the first place.Just before 1pm on Saturday...
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