A little gem for our local Police Inspector

The following text is from an email that the local police Inspector sends out regularly via some new fancy pants online system the police are quite proud of.

"Tough economic times are, unfortunately, boom times for scammers, as people desperate for money and jobs let down their guards and are more likely to pursue questionable financial opportunities that caution might ordinarily warn them away from. And as people become more inure to monetary woes, their charitable inclinations are more easily exploited by scammers pretending to be persons in need of sympathetic helping hands.

We cannot list every scam we get to know about on this web site it would just inundate your mail box. We will continue to warn you of major scams and to assist you to protect yourself we have placed some generic advice on how to avoid scams on the left hand side of the front page of the web site.

The old adage of if it’s too good to be true, it probably is, is well worth consideration."

Now OK I know he means well but honestly is the above actually worth sending to people? And should someone on an Inspectors pay be spending his valuable time stating the obvious?