Crime: 9 March 2012

Found bikes – We have a large number of bikes handed in / recovered / brought into Windsor & Maidenhead police stations. Loads of them. Our property officer tries his best to check each one against all our police system databases, but very few are identified / reported to us as missing or claimed ! If you have lost a bike / had one stolen, after reporting it to us, please come into the police station and ask at the counter if you could look at the bikes in the back yard – dozens of them. Yours may be there !

CRIME:
BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & KNOWL HILL:
cookhamneighbourhood@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
8/3 – 9/3 Thursday 9 p.m. / Friday 8 a.m. The Street, Waltham St Lawrence. Valuable lead statue and urn stolen from outside a house. A wheelbarrow from the garden had been used to transport the items to the garden gate. These sorts of items are going all across the borough. You MUST phone all suspicious people / cars / vans in your road to us asap, on the 101 number.

BOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK:
boynhillcoxgreennhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
NO CRIME TO REPORT

RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
maidenheadriverside&belmontnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
8/3 – 9/3 Thursday 2 p.m. / Friday 7.15 a.m. Hambleden Walk. Thief climbed over a 6’ garden wall to access the garden and steal a bike. They opened the garden gate by pulling the bolt to exit – half refixing the bolt after leaving.
8/3 – 9/3 Thursday 1.30 p.m. / Friday 0.15 a.m. Laggan Road. Thief climbed over a 6’ garden fence to access the garden. They removed the covering from a garage window and climbed inside – 4 bikes stolen !
9/3 Friday 0.50 a.m. Cookham Road. Rear house window smashed.

INNER MAIDENHEAD:
maidenheadtowncentrenhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
NO CRIME TO REPORT

OLDFIELD & BRAY:
oldfield&braynhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
NO CRIME TO REPORT

PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:
pinkneysgreen&furzeplattnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
NO CRIME TO REPORT
 

 SUSPICIOUS CALLS:
I DO HOPE EVERYONE HAS READ A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF THESE CALLS HERE, TO KNOW WHEN THEY GET ONE !
Hi Jeff,
just read the email about a caller ringing about PC problems. I had a strange call yesterday, from somebody claiming to work for a company insuring Sky digital boxes etc. He informed me my insurance had run out and wanted to sell me more, but when I questioned him about who he worked for and where he got my number, he hung up. I remembered that I had another such call last week about some other household insurance.
Su

Hi Jeff
The ICANN scam email has been going around since 2008. ICANN have even written a report on it. I have attached a copy!!!
Regards
Liz

LINK [Maidenhead_SSAC_ADVISORY_ON_PHISHING_ATTACKS.pdf]

There is always someone out there that knows something about everything !
I had an email from someone to say they had a call about their personal shareholdings. Luckily because of the publicity we have given these types of calls, they were suspicious, but caught off guard as they appeared to have so much information about him and his holdings. He was unhappy with the call and did nothing – putting it this way – which I think is a brilliant response:
They failed with me on:
• Being too pushy
• Requesting personal details that wasn’t necessary in my mind
• The documents promised by email the next day haven’t materialised
• They weren’t happy to send it to my work email (so I’m thinking more an internet scam because of firewall protection)
• They wouldn’t give their details
• Hung up when I said I was going to run it passed the police
• 1471 had no details
• They wanted money upfront?
Everyone should keep this checklist beside the phone for suspicious calls. If anything said falls within these categories – put the phone down !