TWO elderly Inverclyde ladies have seen off scammers who tried to convince them to reveal their bank details.

In both cases, the scammers falsely claimed that a substantial amount of cash had been taken from their accounts and transferred abroad.

One of the women, who asked not to be named, said: “A young lady introduced herself and said she was in banking or something like that but she didn’t mention which bank it was that she worked for.

“She told me that she had information that £600 had been removed from my bank account and sent abroad and said I should press 1 on my phone.

“I hung up straight away when she said that.

“One of the council’s Trading Standards officers gave a talk to our over-50s club before we all had to go into lockdown, so I knew it was a scam.

"It was only afterwards that I thought to do a 1471 to get the young lady’s number.

"I gave it to the fraud squad and they’re trying to get to the bottom of it.”