Nurseries across Scotland have been warned to be on their guard following bogus calls from a company claiming they owe it hundreds of pounds for educational publications.
Laura Fraser, owner of Rowan Tree Nursery in Glasgow, received three phone calls on 7 July from a company claiming she had agreed back in February to pay 199 towards the cost of a publication to be distributed to local primary schools.
She said, 'When I said I was unaware of the publication, the caller said the order had been reduced "from a full contribution to a contribution for a single class". They waffled on and said they'd just rung to find out which primary school I wanted to send the copies to.'
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