A pensioner has spoken out to warn others after being targeted by conmen posing as her bank yesterday.

The 70-year-old woman from Stoneleigh, received a phone call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 6, from a man claiming to be from her bank.

He informed the woman that they wanted to send her a new card but that he would need to do a security check first.

The woman, who does not wish to be identified, gave the man her full name, address, date of birth and mother’s maiden name, but became suspicious when the man asked for the security code on the back of her bank card.

She said: “I went along with it until they asked me for give the security number on the back of the card and with that they hung up.

“It’s so easily done.

“I got sucked into it until he asked for that bit.

“I feel people need to be warned because the bank said it happens quite a lot.

“They seem to target people who are in all day and the elderly.

“If I fell into it other people could easily do it too.”