POLICE have issued a warning over a scam that has cost victims almost £50,000 in savings. Several people in the county have been victim to appalling impersonator fraud scams in the lost month, it has been revealed. The scammers, who posed as police officers, told victims that the money in their savings account was corrupt and that they needed to send money or gold. On Tuesday, police received a report that an elderly couple in Chichester had been contacted by someone claiming to be from Hammersmith Police on March 25. The victims purchased £24,000 of gold bars and gave them to a man who attended their address claiming to be from Scotland Yard.