Thought it would be worth alerting everyone to a new scam that I, and a couple of my neighbours, had on the telephone this morning.

An automated voice which sounds remarkably like the voice that you get when calling BT says that your licence to receive telephone and broadband has expired and to avoid cut off a payment of £300 is required. It goes on to say that you will be transferred, an American voice then says that a colleague will be with you shortly to take payment. At this point I put the telephone down. Obviously the concern is for vulnerable people.