What a success for Friends of the Library (FOWL), following on from the ‘Frozen’ event a couple of weeks ago.
There maybe! a couple of tickets available, please check with Library on the Friday 06th or Saturday 07th.
As a taster of what you may be getting or in some cases missing…
This afternoon FDC Planning committee approved this application.
More Information as usual on the Whittlesey Neighbourhood Watch Website.
http://www.whittleseynhw.org.uk/
Fraudsters are texting members of the public offering a tax rebate. The text message contains a link to a website and requests to provide personal information, such as bank account information, to claim the nonexistent rebate.
Protect Yourself
It has been reported to Whittlesey Police of some concerns over ‘Cold Callers’ it is not a big problem at present – Just be very aware.
The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) and Action Fraud have noticed a rise in the reporting of victims being recruited via Facebook to sell items for suspects on eBay – often stating that it is a quick way of making money. The items are said to be bankrupt stock, purchased via auctions, and need to be sold on quickly. The majority of the items reported have been Apple Mac Book Pro/Electrical Items. The victim places the items on eBay and once the items are sold, the victim will get paid and transfer the funds to the suspect/recruiter. Once the suspect/recruiter gets the funds, the purchasers are claiming that they have received empty cereal boxes or often no goods at all, leaving the victim being reported as the actual suspect, and leaving them out of pocket as their account will be debited.
Protect yourself:
If you, or anyone you know, have been affected by this fraud or any other scam, report it to Action Fraud by calling 0300 123 2040 or visiting www.actionfraud.police.uk.
This afternoon (27th) Fenland District Council will determine the planning application for the ‘Bricklayers Arms’ site. I covered this last week (scroll down).
It would appear that there are ‘more’ objections than ‘for’ the development – that’s democracy. We wait to see what happens – unfortunately I can not attend.
Tonight is Whittlesey Town Council Planning meeting – Agenda below…
Planning-Agenda-27th-April-2016
Here I am in 1973 staying at the very regal Taj Mahal Hotel™ (Bombay) along with Royal Navy man Paul Rogers-Gray.
Our ‘Epic’ journey to Calcutta, to join a ship picking up aid for Vietnam.
Found Paul RG at Heathrow on a cold November day. We were bound for Calcutta India by Air India. (Fly Air India and get there Faster was their slogan).
6 Hours on the runway, waiting to take off as there was an Air Traffic Controllers strike in France.
No Duty Free and only a sandwich in those days.
Taking off, we had to stop in Dubai to refuel, on landing heavily the plane burst a tyre and this again delayed us by several hours.
Arriving at Bombay (Now Mumbai) by some 12 hours late, we had missed our connecting flight. Air India put us up in the Grand Taj Mahal™ 5 star hotel. 3 days 2 nights and looking at what it cost is probably all relative – then around £20 per night B&B today £200+ upwards.
After our very nice stay, we were off again, via somewhere else I can not remember, eventually arriving at Calcutta nearly 6 days after leaving the UK.
Remember Air India slogan ‘Fly Air India and get there Faster’!
Luckily for Paul RG and myself the ship was still there – (Delayed by several weeks).
The Taj is very famous in many ways, being a 5 star colonial hotel, it has hosted our own Royalty and that of many other countries, been subject to a terrorist attack in 2008 and had a Television series recently on UK TV.
An epic journey, was just one of many I encountered – how about when it took me 8 days in Panama on another occasion NOT to find my ship, another story at some time in the future.
I travelled in excess of 1,000,000 nautical miles travelling to over 100 countries in my vocation at sea.
As of today I have been to 111 countries.
Here is a good article and website to get some information on how to protect yourselves online.
The website is http://www.cyberstreetwise.com
The upgraded mooring along the Bower is progressing well.
It has been brought to my attention that 3 more people locally have been caught out with scams occurring via Internet/e-mail. Quite often people are ashamed to admit to falling for these scams and do not report it to the Police.
The 3 were all over 60’s
Important Notice.
Please note starting from March 27th we will be introducing new online banking authentication procedures in order to safeguard the information of our customers.
As part of these new procedures we will be implementing our two step authentication feature this will prevent unauthorised access to your account.
In order for us to launch these new features we require you to validate your account information by clicking on the link below.
(Takes you to a bogus link – which looks very similar to the correct website)
Please note: Failure to comply with this request can lead to temporary suspension of our online banking services.
Best regards,
HSBC Customer Support.
The above is an example of A SCAM in order to extract your details so ‘they can use’
Hello dear client
(A sure give away not addressed personally – wrong grammar – but not always the case)
Your account has been temporarily blocked
(The big give away is that you may not even have a PayPal account)
To access back to your account, you will reactivate your account within the next 24 hours
(Takes you to a bogus link – which looks very similar to the correct website)
The above is another example.
As always there is a great deal of information on the Whittlesey Neighbourhood Watch Website.
Well put on event at the Ivy Leaf this morning, plenty of stalls and a ‘few’ people in attendance when I visited for an hour or so.
The well reported spate of ‘attempted theft’ from our area (some vehicles left unlocked),
My reported 6 burglaries a couple of weeks ago (again several were through unlocked doors).
It now appears that the ‘Low Life’ (arrested on suspicion) are from outside our area.
I dare say we have a few of our own, but local police keep an eye on these characters.
Today whilst doing my therapeutic Litter Picking, another load of Fly-Tipping, the last lot found, contained addresses not from Whittlesey.
Low Life clear off somewhere else to do your ‘Dirty Deeds’ preferably Peterborough Prison.
Scammers are becoming more and more cleverer and sophisticated – an elderly lady has been hacked this week in Whittlesey.
A lot of information, links on Whittlesey Neighbourhood Watch Website.
http://www.whittleseynhw.org.uk/
1st one this week.
The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) has recently received an influx of reports that fraudsters are targeting the public, via social media, in relation to football tickets. Fraudsters are posting pictures or statuses online telling members of the public to contact them via Direct Message for football tickets. This then leads to a mobile messaging conversation. During the conversation, bank details are provided by the suspect so that the tickets can be purchased. After the victim has paid for the ticket the fraudster blocks them to stop further conversation, leaving victims without the tickets and out of pocket.
Protect yourself:
Check the security of the website and validity of the post.
Avoid taking the conversation offline to private messages.
When purchasing any products over the internet always try to make the payment via PayPal or a credit card where you have some sort of payment cover.
If you, or anyone you know, have been affected by this fraud or any other scam, report it to Action Fraud by calling 0300 123 2040 or visiting www.actionfraud.police.uk.
2nd one this week.
A new investment fraud trend is targeting members of the public who are seeking to sell their wine investment. Fraudsters agree to purchase the victim’s wine, but instead transfer the stock into their own account without paying the victim. The fraudulently obtained wine is then believed to be sold on to other, unsuspecting victims. How does it work? Fraudsters set up fake companies and websites as well as exploit the names of legitimate, established companies to facilitate this fraud. They cold-call the victims and offer to purchase their wine for significantly more than the actual market value. Fraudulent documents, such as purchase agreements, are used to facilitate the fraud and are sent to the victims via post and email. Some fraudsters have gone as far as setting up fake escrow services in order to fool the potential sellers that the payments have been transferred.
The fraudsters send the victims instructions to transfer their wine into storage accounts held within legitimate bonded warehouses. The victims are informed that upon doing this they will be paid the agreed amount. The use of storage accounts held within legitimate bonded warehouses adds an air of legitimacy to the process but in actual fact these storage accounts are controlled by the fraudsters.
Once the wine is transferred into the new storage accounts the suspects break off all contact with the victims. The wine is then moved again, normally within days and often abroad, and, needless to say, the victim never receives the money from the agreed sale.
Protect Yourself :
Never respond to unsolicited phone calls – if in doubt, hang up.
Always check that the details of the organisation or company contacting you (such as website, address and phone number) are correct – the fraudsters may be masquerading as a legitimate organisation.
Never sign over your wine (or any other investment) to another party without first checking they are authentic.
Don’t be fooled by a professional looking website, as the cost of creating a professional website is easily affordable.
Escrow services are regulated by the FCA under the Payment Services Directive 2009. Only deal with a registered Authorised Payment Institution.
You can check the FCA register online at www.fca.org.uk/register
Consider seeking independent legal and/or financial advice before making a decision.
If you have been affected by this, or any other scam, report it to Action Fraud by calling 0300 123 2040, or visiting www.actionfraud.police.uk
