BRENTWOOD Council is supporting ‘SCAMnesty’ which is part of an Essex Trading Standards and Essex Police campaign during Scams Awareness Month.

A SCAMnesty bin was installed in the reception area of Brentwood Town Hall on Monday July 18 where residents can place the scam mail they receive which will then be passed onto Essex Trading Standards.

Councillor Keith Parker, Brentwood Council’s Chairman of the Community, Health and Leisure Committee said: “We are pleased to give all the support we can to help beat the scammers. We hope that by being able to deposit any scam mail they receive anonymously in our SCAMnesty bin, residents will be reassured that they are helping to build up evidence that can be used to target the fraudsters”.