A Proven Scam: Engineering and Consultancy Services
I few days ago I had an e-mail purporting to come from a Bryan Green at this company.
Hello,
It’s Bryan Green, ENGINEERING & CONSULTANCY SERVICES, HR manager.
We found your e-mail in the base of applicants for a job. If you are not in search of a job and not interested in extra earnings, ignore this letter please and I’m sorry for mistake. If you need a job, you have a good chance to work in our company.
We are searching for:
– Financial Department Associate.
ENGINEERING & CONSULTANCY SERVICES (U.K.) LIMITED is connected to many technology purchases and sales, global distribution, manufacturing and consulting. We are concentrated on buying and selling technology in Europe and United States. We offer generous salary for our part-time employees and also some discounts and benefits.
Get in touch with us and join our company. E-mail : hr@engineering-and-consultancy.co.uk
Yours respectfully,
Bryan Green,
HR manager
It had all the hallmarks of a scam, especially as I haven’t applied for any jobs lately.
I have now found out that it is a proven scam, with at least one person having had money stolen from their credit card. The UK Police have been informed.
For that reason the original post has been protected with a password. This is so the police can have access to the original post.
The Sellafield Five Are Released Without Charge
When I first saw this story a few days ago, I thought it was quite a waste of police time. So now the five, who were arrested have been released without charge.
How much did this all cost the taxpayer?
Terrorism Arrests at Sellafield
There have been arrests under the Terrorism Act at Sellafield.
I have been over nuclear facilities in both the UK and the United States and am pretty sure, that untrained people without the right technical background could learn anything of use, that they couldn’t get from something like Wikipedia or Google. They certainly wouldn’t get inside.
In fact all they’ve done is draw attention to themselves and get arrested.
I’d do them for wasting Police time.
Police Caught in a Brothel
According to tonight’s Standard, some police have been caught in a brothel, when they were supposed to be carrying out security patrols in Downing Street.
What would DI Jack Regan of The Sweeney have said? Something like “You’re Nicked!”
The Fake Euro Taxi Scam
Someone tried this on me last night.
A guy rang my bell about 10 last night. When he rang a second time, I opened the wiondow from upstairs and shouted down to him.
He said he’d just returned from France and had come to see my neighbour, who incidentally I’ve only met once and can’t remember his name. I’ve only met him the one time as he’s rarely there. My visitor said he’d only got euros for the taxi and could I change some. As there has been e-mails going round about people doing this and then leaving you with a batch of fake euros, I told him to go and try someone else. He seemed a well-turned out white guy of about twenty, and didn’t have fraudster tattooed across his forehead. But then if you want to con someone, the first thing you do is make it look feasible.
I did report the incident to the local police. It was a pity I didn’t photograph him though!
The joke was that if he had been genuine, I wouldn’t have been able to change his euros, as I only had a fiver in the house.
Proceeding Along the Balls Pond Road
Policemen always used to proceed rather than walk. A policeman friend, explained it was a steady gait, that allowed you to observe what was happening as you patrolled.
A few days ago, I was walking along the Balls Pond Road in a westerly direction and was surprised to see two people in high-visibililty jackets in the top front seats of a number 38 bus. It struck me as unusual as those who wear these types of yellow jackets seem to be rarely seen on buses.
When the bus passed me, I saw it was two police officers and they were observing all around from their high perch.
So are the Metropolitan Police saving money by using buses? It sounds a good idea to me, as high up as they were, they would be getting an execellent view of the traffic and the people on the street. They also had just crossed a junction, where a pedestrian had been hit by a car, which had then driven off.
The Knife and Shepherdess Walk Police Station
When we lived in the Barbican, C used to help look after a house for female ex-prisoners in Hackney. I can’t remember what exactly happened, but I think I went over to the house one day and removed a rather large knife from one of the residents, who did have a reputation for violence.
Today, I was reminded of this story, when I took a 394 from the Geffrye Museum to the Angel at Islington and it passed up Shepherdess Walk.
The reason was that we were uncertain about what to do with the knife, so in the end I took it round to Shepherdess Walk Police Station and dumped it on the counter. The sergeant was uncertain what to do with it and asked me to take it away. However, when I told him where I’d got it from, he agreed to do something with it.
What he did I do not know, but I did know that there was no trouble at the house C ran!
I wonder what would happen today, if you walked into a police station and dumped a large knife on the counter!
A Waste of Police Budget?
As I sat getting even colder on a bench in the car park eating my salmon sandwiches, nibbling at the cold salad and drinking the even colder smoothie, I noticed a large Police truck appear, which on closer inspection was a horse-box.
Police Horses at Glanford Park
As everybody knows, Ipswich Town fans have a reputation. They seem to turn up in larger numbers than most and perhaps this is why the Humberside force decided to bring in the cavalry!
But what a waste of money! Unless it was some odd method to keep the horses warm on such a cold day.
Incidentally, you don’t often see Police horses at Portman Road, because the Suffolk force doesn’t have any. And neither does Norfolk or Cambridgeshire.
But thinking back, I don’t think I actually saw the horses outside the box, so perhaps it was too cold.
Bad Dog Owners
Some work done by I think the Metropolitan Police showed that if they stopped a car with no Road Tax, insurance or MOT, then there was a fifty percent chance that the occupants of the car were committing or had committed another non-motoring offence.
I wonder if similar research has been done into the owners of hard-looking dogs, when they walk around the streets, giving a message, that we don’t want to see!
I suspect, it would show similar results to the cars.
Reporting Fraud
I had a bad day yesterday, as someone was trying to get me ensnared in a boiler house fraud, trying to buy some useless shares. I don’t buy shares anyway! After they had phoned four times in as many minutes, I told them to Foxtrot Oscar in no uncertain terms.
They then threatened to make my life hell and phoned every few seconds for the rest of day. BT and the Police could do nothing and eventually, I pulled the phone line out of the wall. As I’d had my Warfarin test yesterday, the hospital would have then been unable to get through, if I’d needed to change the dose.
The calls seem to have stopped today, either because they have got fed up with being connected to a void or because BT have done something I don’t know about!
Now, after some nice calls from friends and family, I feel a lot more rational and felt that I should report what happened properly.
After looking at the SOCA web site, I found a link to Action Fraud, which describes itself as the UK’s national fraud reporting centre. I phoned them on 0300 123 2040. They were very helpful and have reassured me on a couple of subsidiary points. So do phone them to report fraud.
They were certainly very much more clued up than the local Police.
The Anonymous Widower 