RURAL UCKFIELD

Community Contact Wealden Tuesday 17 June to Tuesday 24 June 2008

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APPEALS, MESSAGES AND NEWS

Press Release

Upper Hartfield – Car Damaged

Sometime between the evening of Saturday 14 June and the morning of Monday16 June, someone damaged a Land Rover which was parked in Parrock Lane, Upper Hartfield. Police are appealing for witnesses. Anyone with information is asked to contact Crowborough police on 0845 6070999, quoting serial 292 of 16/06/08 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.

Messages

Bank scams

A number of Community Contact members have received emails claiming to be from banks, namely Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC and Nat West. These emails state that if the recipient doesn’t reactivate or reply to the message their account will be suspended unless they respond. This is nonsense, banks and building societies NEVER ask for account information and generally will not send emails to account holders. In general the only time you will receive an email from your bank/building society will be about viewing an on line statement and all of the emails state that you can not reply. There fore if you receive an email of this sort asking for account details delete it. Quite often the recipient doesn’t even have an account.

American holiday scam

A member of the Community Contact has emailed in to say that they received a phone call from a company stating that they had won an all inclusive holiday to Florida, (the carrot). The call appeared genuine but the caller was pressuring the recipient to ‘confirm’ their credit card details before they could continue. The recipient wisely refused, the caller claimed they would lose their job (emotional blackmail, don’t fall for it) if they were to give out the details for the recipient to confirm. The recipient held fast and the caller terminated the call. NEVER give out your details to anyone who simply rings you offering you something tempting, even if there is a big carrot on the end of the stick, lets stay with this metaphor – you’ll never receive the carrot but instead get hit with the stick. Don’t do it.

Pin reversal at cash points

I have been informed about this on a number of occasions. Essentially there are emails floating around, getting into people’s inboxes claiming that if you were to enter your pin number into a cash point in reverse the Police will be called automatically to aid you if you were ever to be held up by a robber who was demanding money from you at the cash point. Although a great idea, that is all it is, an idea. Pin reversal at the present time does not work. Do not pass this message on, it’s misinformation.

CRIME REPORT

Vehicle Crime

Contact Information

In an emergency dial 999
For less urgent matters call the Sussex Police Call Handling Centre on 0845 60 70 999 (open 24 x 7).
E-mail Sussex Police to report crime, click on http://www.sussex.police.uk/contact_us.asp
Please quote the relevant serial number and date if you are responding to a reported crime, if not, ask to report a crime and request the serial number.

Information about any type of crime can be given anonymously by calling CRIMESTOPPERS (open 24x7) 0800 555111 or email www.crimestoppers-uk.org/

To find out who your local Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers are and how to contact them go to http://www.sussex.police.uk type in your post code and you’ll now find the names of all your local neighbourhood officers. Click on their pictures and you’ll see their personal profiles and contact details.

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Fire Safety advice available at http://www.esfrs.org/

Other Contacts
Safer Wealden Partnership: Dave Law Anti Social Behaviour Co-ordinator 0845 6070999 ext. 33231 Email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Trading Standards: 01323 418200 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
British Transport Police: 0800 405040

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