Ten people have been arrested in London after allegedly conning elderly people in Devon and Cornwall out of money.
The scam is said to have netted them two million pounds.
The so called courier fraud involves people pretending to be police officers and getting victims to send over large sums of money to fradulent bank accounts. One victim in the region lost one hundred and thirty thousand pounds.
Nine men and a woman are being questioned at a Central London Police station.
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