A phony Federal Police officer is scamming Melburnians to score freebies.

The man flashed a badge and said his name was John Higgston to con attendants into letting him drive off with a free tank of petrol at the BP service station in Flemington on July 10. He and a woman also had a dinner date in a Little Bourke St eatery on July 4 without paying.

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