May I alert readers to an apparent con going the rounds.

Our dear mother died recently and we have been trying to sell her house near Banstead.

We have been paying the council tax and other bills.

Out of the blue two letters arrived from a suspicious body called Capacity Grid using a crude copy and pasted logo from Reigate & Banstead Council.

The letter asks for all sorts of information and threatens, in the name of the council, an "inspection" if we fail to reply.

I am not quite sure what the con is. Someone told me that this is a foreign-owned company that's trying to get asylum seekers into empty properties.

Queries to the company have been met with silence. However, my advice to readers is that if anyone, even the council, steps one inch over your property boundary, to call the police immediately as this is criminal trespass.

I am not sure if Epsom Council is involved; Reigate & Banstead certainly are.

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