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Crime:
26 June 2013
First
can I point you to the section – MEMBERS’
COMMENTS: below. Someone
asked me a question about using PayPal.
I always know the right person to ask – to get the correct
answer, not just an ‘I think....’
Greg Nelson the Head of Trading
Standards over at the Borough, has been really good and put
something together for us, which I hope you will find useful.
You may want to cut and paste it into
another document to keep to one side, in case it is needed later. Can
I thank Greg, every time anyone asks for help
with a problem, everyone pulls out all the stops to be helpful and I know
we are all really grateful ? MAIDENHEAD
CENTRAL: maidenheadcentralnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk Neighbourhood
Page: http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/yournh/yournh-tvp-pol-area/yournh-tvp-pol-area-berkse-winds 22/6-
24/6 Saturday 1.30 p.m. /
Monday 4.45 a.m. Hayes
Close. Van broken into
and tools stolen. RIVERSIDE
& BELMONT: maidenheadcentralnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk 24/6
Monday 8 a.m. / 3.30 p.m. Barn
Close, Furze Platt. Offenders
have entered the property via an alleyway to the rear of the property.
They then tried to force doors and rear windows.
Having failed, they smashed the kitchen window.
Search of whole house. They
ignored jewellery and electrical items and exited via the rear door USING
KEYS WHICH HAD BEEN LEFT IN THE DOOR.
American dollars and 2 distinctive collectors coins (2 X 10
Deutsche Mark coins, commemorating Potsdam), stolen MAIDENHEAD
WEST BISHAM,
COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & KNOWL HILL: maidenheadwestnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk Neighbourhood
Page: http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/yournh/yournh-tvp-pol-area/yournh-tvp-pol-area-berkse-winds 25/6
Tuesday 3.30 a.m. Waltham
Road. White Waltham.
Garage break – USING
A KEY HIDDEN NEAR THE GARAGE – as the garage door was opened
the alarm went off and the offender immediately made off.
Two messages here – the advantages
of alarming your garage – in this case it was an integral garage –
even more important and secondly spare keys MUST NOT be hidden under
flowerpots or anything else near a property.
Thieves know we do this and scout around for possible hiding
places. Finally - even though
it was a rural location, the thieves made off, as soon as the alarm
sounded ! PINKNEYS
GREEN & FURZE PLATT: maidenheadwestnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk NO
CRIME TO REPORT. MAIDENHEAD
SOUTH BOYN
HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK: maidenheadsouthnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk Neighbourhood
Page: http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/yournh/yournh-tvp-pol-area/yournh-tvp-pol-area-berkse-winds 25/6
– 26/6 Tuesday 11.45 p.m. /
Wednesday 5.30 a.m. Palmers
Close, Cox Green. Vamoose
Burglary - Burglary to steal a car).
Via front UPVC door – CLOSED
BUT NOT DEADLOCKED – It appears the offenders may have used
something like a coat hanger through the letterbox to pull down the handle
inside and open the door. Many
items left behind such as wallets and other valuable portable items – a
laptop bag (which was recovered discarded at garages nearby), house and
car keys, along with the Silver
Vauxhall Insignia index BJ 60 VWN were stolen.
Can
everyone be on the lookout for it ? It
may have been driven to your quiet road and parked up. OLDFIELD
& BRAY: maidenheadsouthnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk 25/6
Tuesday 8.15 p.m. / 10.45 p.m.
High Street Bray.
Car rear windscreen smashed – laptop bag and LAPTOP
stolen. 24/6
– 25/6 Monday 4 p.m. /
Tuesday 1 p.m. Langworthy
End, Holyport. Attempted
Burglary. The front door
handle has a hole punched in it and is now loose.
No entry gained. 24/6
Monday 8.30 p.m. / 10.30 p.m.
Cricket Club, High Street,
Bray. Car rear window
smashed, the parcel shelf was removed and moved in the car – nothing
stolen. MEMBERS
COMMENTS: If
you know anyone that runs a pub / restaurant can you warn them about this
scam, which happened in Windsor this week and I understand from our
Licensing Officer Debie Piermain, has happened across RBWM: Jeff We
have just had claims made to us for dry cleaning, which have been paid out
at both the Royal Oak and at Bar 51. Both were for £35. They were claimed
by a short dark haired girl, who claimed to have had red wine spilled down
her jacket. Authority had
been given by the previous manager. The
receipts are identical, both claimed last Monday, one is receipt number 2
and one receipt number 6, so I assume others might have been caught. Many
thanks – others need to be aware. Regards George Re
Colour: Of
all the hundreds of replies – for which I am really grateful - I felt
Cheryl, put it very well: Hi Jeff With regard
to colour in the messages. I
like the colour, I have a Smartphone, not an iPhone, and the messages look
just fine on my phone. I would vote
to keep the colour, it highlights the message a lot better for reading,
particularly on a smaller screen, like a smartphone. Thanks for
the opportunity to feedback on this. Cheryl Cheryl’s
response begs the question - does this only impact upon iPhones ?
Several people with iPhone 5s emailed me to say they have no
problem either and want the colour retained.
I
have also had an email in to say the new Jpeg files are a problem.
I will go back to using Word and JPG / PDFs instead.
Who would have thought all this was so complicated ? (only one
question mark this time – I have been asked not to use multiple ?????
and !!! ) ! Message received. Hi
Jeff You
send out lots of valuable information, often with attachments. I can
open those which are DOC or JPG files open quite happily, but
PDF files prove to be inaccessible. They cause my computer to hang
indefinitely, even though I can open PDF files in all other circumstances.
Your bulletin today threatens to convert all attachments to PDF
format, which probably means they would all become inaccessible. I'm
at a loss to know where to start looking for any cause to this problem,
which seems to be purely NHW related. Is anyone else having this
difficulty? Malcolm NEXT:- Someone
asked me about the safety of using Paypal as an online banking system.
This
arose because of the car purchasing scam – someone travelling abroad
offers to buy your car and says they will pay, using Paypal.
Is this safe – the answer basically is NO.
If there is a problem – in the case of the scam – they cancel
the payment. The main problem
is one of Jurisdiction. If
something goes wrong in which country would you sue ??? Greg
Nelson the Head of RBWM Trading Standards is putting some advice together
– it has just arrived - but in the meantime as this may be urgent for
some of you I have had this in from Surrey Trading Standards – we do
work cross border which I will add as well. Hello
Jeff I’ve
been looking to put some advice together for people using PayPal. Not
surprisingly there’s plenty of advice already out there, so rather than
re-invent the wheel I would refer people to http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-scammers-target-your-paypal-account-how-to-never-fall-for-it/
which is pretty comprehensive. One
thing I would add, is that people need to take particular care when using
PayPal to buy or sell goods, that are not covered by PayPal’s Buyer
Protection, or Seller Protection respectively (see https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/paypal-safety-and-security
). Cars
for
example, are
not covered, so anyone who is a victim of the attempted scam we
saw recently (an offer to buy a car using PayPal), would not get their
money back from PayPal, if things went wrong. I
hope that helps Regards Greg Greg Nelson Royal
Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead phone
01628 683561 e-mail
greg.nelson@rbwm.gov.uk
http://www.rbwm.gov.uk/web/trading_standards.htm Surrey
County Council Trading Standards More
than 26 million people in the UK bank online - so that's 26 million of you
that need to be wary of fraudsters trying to gain access to your account!
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