Crime: 25 November 2013  

MAIDENHEAD CENTRAL:
maidenheadcentralnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
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21/11 – 23/11  Thursday 6 p.m. / Saturday 11 a.m.  Telephone Exchange, West Street.  Car entered using duplicate key – electric drill stolen.
 
RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
maidenheadcentralnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
24/11 – 25/11  Sunday 1 p.m. / Monday 7 a.m.  Bailey Close.  The owners found their four tyres slashed.  This is not the first time.
25/11  Monday 1 p.m.  Sandringham Road.  Burglary.  Entry via rear garden fence.  The offenders then went to the back of the property and removed a wooden panel beside the door and entered.  Untidy search – cash stolen.
24/11 – 25/11  Sunday 7.35 p.m. – Monday midnight.  Surgery, Cookham Road – rear window smashed.
23/11 – 24/11  Saturday / Sunday  Abingdon Walk, Furze Platt.  Car has been sprayed all over with red graffiti.
22/11 – 23/11  Friday 1 p.m. / Saturday 9 a.m.  Lassell Court.  Car tyre slashed.
 
MAIDENHEAD WEST
BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & KNOWL HILL:
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25/11  7.45 p.m. / 9 p.m.  Pub, Paley Street.  Car passenger door lock forced – Laptop bag and LAPTOP, and an overnight bag & contents stolen.
25/11  7.45 p.m. / 9 p.m.  Pub, Littlefield Green, White Waltham X 2.  1.  Car broken into – no further details.  2. Car broken into – no further details.  Both reports were from 3^rd parties.  The owners have not yet reported the incidents.
25/11  Monday 8.30 a.m. / 12.20 p.m.  Paley Street.  Burglary.  Entry via rear forced door.  No search carried out as the offender may have been disturbed by the owner’s dog and made off.
 
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
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25/11  Monday 8 p.m. / 11.20 p.m.  White Paddock, Woodlands Park.  Burglary.  Entry via forced ground floor window.  Untidy search – nothing stolen.
 
OLDFIELD & BRAY:
maidenheadsouthnhpt@thamesvalley.pnn.police.uk
23/11  Saturday 0.45 a.m.  Shoppenhangers Road.  The owner heard a loud bang as a group of youths walked past her house.  A window had been smashed.
25/11  Monday 8 p.m. / 9 p.m.  Cricket Club, Bray Road.  Car passenger window and the rear windscreen smashed – mobile, LAPTOP, rucksack and contents stolen.  Some items discovered discarded nearby.
22/11 – 23/11  Friday 11.30 p.m. / Saturday 7 a.m. Drift Road, Braywoodside, Hawthorn Hill.  A beer bottle thrown at a front door causing damage.
 
 
MEMBERS’ COMMENTS:
 
NEW VERSION OF THE COMPUTER TELEPHONE SCAM:
 
Hi Jeff,
 
I’m new to this forum, so I hope you are the correct person to contact.
 
A friend of mine has just received a rather disturbing call (from India?).  The caller claimed to be from TISCALI Support Group (Tiscali was bought out by TalkTalk some time ago).
The caller said that my friends PC had been hacked and that someone in Nigeria, was using his IP address on the Internet and that he would need to purchase a new IP address, to resolve the problem - at a cost of £399 !!
 
He then persuaded my friend to allow him access to his PC, via a piece of downloaded software.  He proceeded to run a short application, which displayed the PCs current IP address.  This was probably to try to add some credibility to his story.
 
IP addresses (as far as I am aware), are generated by the PC at each log on and are different each time.  How then can anybody can “STEAL” your IP.
 
Only large companies and organisation purchase “Static IPs”, certainly not the overwhelming number of PC users like us.
 
My friend, became suspicious and told the caller that he would check with an IT expert (me!) and would call back; at that point the caller hung up.
 
The morale is “Never Give Anyone Access to your PC” after a cold call the phone.  Only ever allow it if you know who they are and you have verified their credentials.
 
Regards,
 
Doug
 
Absolutely Doug - Welcome aboard.
 
Can I remind all new members and - there are 100 of you a month now – that we are a huge self help group.  NHW is the largest group of ‘volunteers’ in the country.  The real ‘Big Society’.  If you have a problem, or need assistance / advice, there is always someone out there, who is willing to help and assist and volunteer their experience.  We use this format, to share experiences and best practice.  If something has happened to you, this is the way we let others know – and that way protect them.
 
That is how we obtained the services of Paul Hay our Volunteer IT Guru and Peter Webster our Volunteer CCTV Guru !  Two areas that seem to give members most issues.
 
 
I have had this in from Paul:
Jeff, Doug,
 
This is just another way of them trying to scare / confuse / bully people into giving away their money.
 
They will try to confuse people with technology they don't understand to make them think they need help.
 
THERE IS NO WAY FOR THEM TO KNOW WE HAVE A PROBLEM ON OUR COMPUTERS.
 
In this particular example, they are saying that our IP address has been compromised. The IP address is the actual name for our computer when it connects to the internet. Doug is quite right that this is a number that gets made up each time we connect. So what they are saying is meaningless.
 
They are making this all up !
 
The advice to people is the same as it is for anybody calling up about our computer. Just ignore what they say. You can put the phone down with full confidence that they do not know about your computer.

Regards,
Paul
 
Thanks Paul
 
UNWANTED COLD CALLERS
 
Hi Jeff
I used to describe my wife as ruthless when dealing with unwanted callers - either at the door or on the phone.  However, I've learned from her.
I have not invited these people to my home and I have no interest in what they're selling.  When they start their spiel I simply say, "I do not wish to continue with this conversation as I have no interest in what you're telling me" and put the phone down.  If it's at the door, as soon as I've found out why they're there, I say, "Sorry, but I'm not interested.  Goodbye."
 
Why the "Sorry" ?  I'm not apologising, but I'm disappointing them.  They haven't been rude to me as such, and so I think it's worth acknowledging that I'm rejecting the product, not the person who's selling it.
 
Neil
 
Thanks Neil – your wife is right on message !!!