A moment later your purse and cards have gone and so has that nice young stranger …
You feel annoyed, as much with yourself as the thief – ‘how could I have been so stupid?’ Well YOU are nice and helpful but
Police
Don’t be a sucker for a scam – plus ça change plus c’est la même chose
We know you’ve all hear about these tricks usually to try to diddle us out of money or get information about us or people in our Contacts lists.
It’s almost always the same thing – trying to get you to click on an attachment to an e-mail that will either lead you to revealing information to someone different from whom you supposed or, without further action on your part, do unpleasant things to your computer either overtly or covertly causing at least hassle, but more
Police Alert – Courier Scam … again
This is a re
minder to residents in Aylesbury Vale to be on their guard to a telephone/bank card scam that is now spreading across the country. The scam is as follows:-
The victim receives an unsolicited telephone call from the fraudsters claiming to be their bank (or in some cases the police), stating that their systems have spotted a fraudulent payment on their card or
Spammers – Episode 32543 – Cryptolocker ransomware
You are NOT being paranoid –they ARE out to get you.
Well, joy of joys there’s a new virus/trojan/nasty-thing out to get us … if we let it.
Let’s start with what it is. As usual it is delivered neatly wrapped in an innocent looking e-mail as an attachment looking just like set of funny cat pictures, or a message from your bank, anything to entice you to open it … and you do.
Annual Community & Emergency Services Day
Annual Community & Emergency Services Day
at
Waddesdon Manor
on
Saturday 14 September, from 10am to 4pm.
Burglary prevention
With the current spell of warm weather the Aylesbury Town and Rural Neighbourhood Policing Teams are asking local residents to be vigilant with the security of their homes. When it … Read more
Shed Security
As thefts from garden sheds and outbuildings continue to be reported across the Vale, please take a moment to review the security of your own buildings.
The attachments (below), give some good tips and advice on increasing the security of sheds, garages and outbuilding. The harder it is for a potential criminal to break in, the more likely they are to not try in the first place.
- Many security measure cost little or no money, such as:-Shed alarms – which can be purchased from DIY stores and garden centres and emit a loud noise if the padlock is tampered with.
- Anti–tamper screws – these can used on doors
Do you know how to report a fraud?
Six months since a new way to report fraud was introduced in the Thames Valley, residents are being reminded to remember Action Fraud.
On 3 December 2012, Action Fraud was rolled out to forces in the south east as a one-stop shop for fraud reporting. It has since gone live in every police force across the country and now deals with all fraud reports centrally.
Garden Shed Security
Your shed or outbuilding may not be as exotic as this wonderful creation (yes, really, this is one of a large range of weird garden buildings made by a company in Elk River, Minnesota) but its contents might total a tidy sum.
As the weather has become warmer this is often a time when burglaries to sheds and outbuildings are committed.
During June in our area a burglary to a garage has been reported on Grenville Avenue, Wendover, a shed burglary on
