Police are again warning people to be on their guard against bogus callers after two incidents in the same road in Wallingford.
A man in his early 20s entered a house in Croft Road through the back door and pretended he was a council worker who had come to check the windows.
He then asked the householder to follow him into a bedroom after claiming a window was cracked, but left the house empty handed.
The man was of medium build, had short blond hair, and was about 5ft 8in tall.
On the same day, an elderly woman also living in Croft Road found a man of the same description in her kitchen.
He also claimed to be from the council and said he had come to measure windows. He then went outside but did not return. Nothing was stolen.
The incidents last Thursday happened days after two conmen stole £30 from a 79-year-old woman at her Wallingford home, and after a man and woman stole a handbag containing £100 from an 80-year-old Alzheimer's sufferer in Berinsfield.
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