FIRST: A REMINDER OF A VERY SUBTLE SCAM AFFECTING SMALL BUSINESSES / CHURCHES AND NOW PARISH COUNCILS !
One of our Parish councils has made contact with me to say that their accounts department received an invoice for payment. It looked absolutely genuine and was passed over for payment. Someone then became suspicious and asked who had authorised the expenditure. No-one could remember authorising it, so the Clerk started to investigate. It then came out that it was a totally bogus invoice – it was a scam.
We do have a lot of these cases. Scammers just send random invoices, for services / items that look ok, to random companies / organisations. In most cases, these are just paid without question. Often, the fraud is never detected, as the expenditure is never questioned.
This is just a warning to be alert to this issue, check invoices, with whoever ordered the item / service. This time it was caught, but we have no idea how many get though and are never identified.
NEXT: REPORTS OF NOTTINGHAM KNOCKERS IN THE AREA.
Please be on your guard and do not purchase anything from them.
NEXT: AN EVENT BEING HOSTED BY OPAF – THE OLDER PERSONS ADVISORY FORUM:
Tuesday 5th July 7.30 p.m. / 11 p.m. Stripes bar, York Road, Maidenhead. A FOOTBALL & WAR SEMINAR – Free to all
The Network – supported by the University of Wolverhampton - is made up of historians of war with an interest in football and football club historians. It aims to bring together historians from the academic and football worlds so that for the first time all the academic, practitioner and fan research centred around football, war and history can link up. The Network research, discuss and disseminate subjects such as: football and the two world wars; footballers involved in armed conflict; football clubs and their relationship with the armed forces; the social impact of football on the populace during times of war; the military and political implications of the role of footballers and football clubs during times of armed conflict.
For more details – see the bottom of this message.
CRIME
I have attached reference numbers to each crime report. If you live in the vicinity of any of the crimes mentioned and have CCTV or a video doorbell, can you please check the footage. If you have any that might be of interest to the police, can you please make contact with us, quoting reference number given.
Alternatively you can call 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or email -
www.crimestoppers-uk.orgMAIDENHEAD CENTRAL:
maidenheadcentralgeographical@thamesvalley.police.ukNO CRIME TO REPORT
RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
NO CRIME TO REPORT
MAIDENHEAD WEST
maidenheadwestgeographical@thamesvalley.police.ukBISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & KNOWL HILL:
NO CRIME TO REPORT
PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:
28/6 Tuesday 9.30 a.m. / 2.45 p.m. Pinkney’s Road. Burglary. Entry via forced front door and window frame damaged. Bedrooms had been searched. Jewellery and jacket stolen. Ref. No: 43220284060
28/6 Monday 12 noon St. Paul’s Gardens. Burglary. Garden side gate forced. Glass in living room door smashed and frame bent. Untidy search of the whole house. Wardrobes and chests of drawers emptied out, clothes discarded everywhere. Jewellery stolen. Garden shed also searched – possibly for items to break in with. Ref. No: 43220284199 Possibly linked to the above offence.
MAIDENHEAD SOUTH
maidenheadsouthgeographical@thamesvalley.police.ukBOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK
28/6 Tuesday 1.35 a.m. Heynes Green. White Range Rover Velar, stolen from outside a home. The tracking system showed the car parked up in Heywood Court Close. Police attended immediately and the car was recovered.
OLDFIELD, BRAY & HOLYPORT:
NO CRIME TO REPORT
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