A warning to parents in the Kilkeel area of Co Down was issued by the RUC after a couple tried to get two young boys into their car on Sunday afternoon.
According to an RUC spokesman, they offered sweets and toys to the boys, aged nine and 10, and asked them to get into the car.
The boys fled but were not followed.
The man, described as being in his 30s with black hair, and the woman in her 20s with shoulder length black hair, were in a blue coloured car. The incident occurred on Leestone Road off the Newcastle Road in Kilkeel.