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:
NO CRIME TO REPORT.
RIVERSIDE & BELMONT:
NO CRIME TO REPORT.
MAIDENHEAD WEST
BISHAM, COOKHAM, HURLEY, THE WALTHAMS, LITTLEWICK GREEN & KNOWL HILL:
A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY: A world Café is coming to the Walthams. Thursday 25th August 2022 – 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Woodlands Park Community Centre, Woodlands Park Village Centre, Manifold Way, Waltham Road, Maidenhead SL6 3GW (Parking available) – no booking necessary – just turn up. The event will be attended by all our partner agencies and as many members of the public as possible, to discuss the effects of the cost of living crisis and how we – locally - can address the issues. To come up with possible solutions, we need as many residents as possible from the area, to attend. Attendees will also receive a free light lunch and a £5 KSP Superstore voucher !!!!
5/8 Friday 10.30 a.m. / 12.30 p.m. Marlow Road, Bisham Village. Business burglary. Someone entered the building and stole laptops, other electronic equipment and paperwork stolen. Ref. No: 43220351067
PINKNEYS GREEN & FURZE PLATT:
6/8 Saturday 6.35 p.m. Pinkney’s Drive. Report of 8 youths setting a fire in a dry field using a disposable BBQ. Ref. No: 43220350274.
6/7 Friday 3.40 a.m. Cannon Lane. At 3.40 a.m. CCTV / Video footage shows a man walked onto the driveway and tried the car door of one car. The car was locked. He then went down the side of the property, to where a second car was parked. That car was also locked. The video shows him walking the length of the garden. At the end of the garden footprints are clearly visible in the dew. At 3.41 a.m. the man can be seen leaving the side of the property with something in his hand. The man is wearing a light coloured camouflage jacket and matching baseball cap, dark trousers and dark trainers with a small reflective strip. He also had a dark face covering, covering the bottom half of his face. Looks like a scarf or similar that you can pull up to the top of your nose. He pulls this up as he walks on the driveway. He is wearing dark gloves with 2 reflective strips on the back of the hand. He then left. Ref. No: 43220349634
MAIDENHEAD SOUTH
BOYN HILL, COX GREEN & WOODLANDS PARK
8/8 Monday 9.15 a.m. Rutland Gate. A delivery driver was making a delivery. When they got back, a cooker had been stolen from the back of the van
OLDFIELD, BRAY & HOLYPORT:
NO CRIME TO REPORT.
MEMBERS’ COMMENTS:
Hello Jeff,
Firstly thank you for all you are doing for the community and for the excellent neighbourhood alert emails which make of interesting and informative reading.
I just wanted to let you know about a scam email that is doing the rounds, and appears to be as a result of someone’s email account being hacked. My father and I have both received one of these in the last 3 weeks:
An email arrived from people we have been in email contact with. It did appear to be from their email address. It said (i) “have a problem with my email can you respond to confirm you’ve received this” and (ii) “I have a favour to ask you, if you don’t mind”.
We replied to say “yes received” and “depends what the favour is” ?
Second email arrived, saying, ‘Can you a purchase a £200 google play gift card for me as I can’t get to a shop, or work out how to do it online. It is for (i) a sick friend whose parents have died, and (ii) a birthday present for a friend, as I am out of the country and forgot to get them a gift
The email goes on to say “I promise I will reimburse you” and “once you have got the gift card, I will tell you how to get it to me”.
At point 3, we hit the delete button ! I communicated with the person I received the email from and he advised he had a problem with his account and had had to switch to a new address.
Thought you may like to share this information with the community, as some people could be taken in by this, as the email address appears correct, genuine and purports to be someone you know.
Keep up the excellent work
Many thanks
Alison
What this means is their computer has been hacked and this email message has gone to everyone in their personal address list / contact list. It is the same sort of thing as the – ‘I am crying as I write this from my holiday in X place. We have been robbed and have no passports cash / debit cards and cannot pay X Y Z. Please send me some money ……….
Please remain alert ! These are tricky, as you appear to know the person involved and as their contact list has been hacked, it is addressed to you personally !
NEXT – WHY WE SHOULD ALL CHECK OUR BANK STATEMENTS:
Hello Jeffrey
Just want to let you know that my husband's bank account had a debit of £79.99 charged apparently, by a computer software company.
The deduction was totally unauthorised and unexpected.
We believe It to be a Scam.
We've contacted the bank, and they're in the process of completing a form to get a refund; said we need to ring back in a few hours.
And they've cancelled the bank card, and are re-issue a replacement.
We don't know how this came about, as my husband has not applied for any computer support.
Just thought you might like to be informed of this potentially fraudulent action and suggest people keep an eye on their bank accounts.
Thanks for all that you do.
Kind regards, Jacqui
Many thanks Jacqui – advice we should all follow !
