Watch members are continuing to report cold calls from a company, telling them that their computer is at risk, asking them to turn it on immediately, so that the caller can 'fix' the problem for them, for a fee.

Trading standard's advice is:-

• Do not deal with cold callers.
• Never give personal information over the telephone to cold callers.
• Never give passwords or credit cards and bank details over the telephone to unknown callers.

A resident had two calls yesterday from a security company, claiming to be doing a NHW survey and offering security systems for £1. When the resident identified themself as being a NHW co-ordinator the caller quickly made their excuses and terminated the call.

Any alarm or security systems at such a low cost may well have a heavy monthly monitoring fee and large cancellation costs.

Source: Ringmaster Bedfordshire

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You are reading "Thames Valley Police - Community Messaging", an article posted on 18 January 2011, which appears in the categories computers, Council, Internet, Internet Scams, Parish Council, Police, Ringmaster, Telephone Scams.