Archive for May, 2010
Clone gang hits ATMs
Subject: Clone gang hits ATMs A sophisticated gang has raided the bank accounts of scores of Cape ATM bankers using hi-tech cloning devices and tiny mounted cameras. According to a police expert, the devices are “professionally made” and include minute digital cameras which watch users enter their codes and four-gigabyte memory cards which record reams [...]
BOGUS SARS TAX REFUND MESSAGE
Dear Neighbour, I apologise for the lack of activity on this blog, while I have been away. Hopefully things will soon be back to normal. The letter below is clearly bogus and a crude attempted scam – you must never respond to this type of unsolicited message. Regards Steve Dear Tax Payer, We hereby call [...]
Scam Warning – Dr Frank Bolton is still busy-comments
Scam Warning – For House Lets Dear Neighbour, FYI Regards Geoff Hi Geoff/Ian I advertise an apartment on the highly reputable ¨Capestay? website. I received a ¨normal? booking enquiry from a ¨Frank Bolton? and I responded.(See attached emails) The obvious attached ¨Scam? response speaks for itself. It is a very crude scam attempt?..even to [...]
Suspicious strangers
Dear Neighbour, FYI Regards Geoff Colleagues, Please be aware of the strange experience described below by Marc Bow. Any strangers should be questioned about the company that they represent and a telephone number should be obtained for verification purposes. If the person(s) concerned are not genuine they will probably back off [...]
Glen Road Blog
Dear Neighbour, I am currently overseas and unfortunately cannot access my full mailing list, so although I will continue to post security alerts, I am unable to send notification of new posting to the normal recepients, so I request that you just check the blog from time to time. Please send any news for publishing [...]
Burglary in Welcome Glen
Dear Neighbour, FYI Regards Geoff Hi all We had a burglary in Glenoak Road on Friday sometime between 10am and 2pm. The burglar bars were bent and pulled out of our windows. The house was ransacked, cupboards and draws emptied out. Not sure what more to do to protect our properties. Regards Lindy [...]
Burglary suspect arrested Camilla Street 30 April
Dear Neighbour, FYI – a good ending! Regards Geoff Hello Geoff This morning at about 0500h we received a call from our neighbours in Camilla Street that they had disturbed a burglar. They discovered that he had broken a window near the catch and had taken their laptop. The neighbour then saw a [...]