A van driver has had £200 worth of jewellery stolen in an audacious roadside con.
Police are appealing for information after the driver was targeted by a couple who tried to offer him poor quality jewellery at the side of the A90 on Tuesday.
The 56-year-old man had pulled his van into the lay-by near the turn off to Errol on the Dundee to Perth road for a break. He was roused by a knock at his window, some time between 6.30pm and 7pm, and saw a man of Eastern European or Asian appearance outside his van.
The man who is described as being in his 50s, about 5ft 7in, with short dark bushy hair that is greying at the front and clean shaven said he needed money for fuel.
The driver said he had no money to give him and then a woman also of East European or Asian appearance and in her 50s got into the van, emptied a bag of jewellery into the passenger seat and offered to sell it to the driver.
She was shorter than her partner and was wearing what is described as traditional dress.
The van driver declined but, unprompted, the woman then put some of the jewellery on him. In the process, she took a gold bracelet and neck chain he was wearing and then got out of the car and ran off with her partner.
They got into what is described as a big black car possibly a Ford Mondeo estate and drove off.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact them on 0300 1112222.