Good afternoon subscribers
Please find below the South Cambridgeshire weekly updates, providing
information on local crime trends, antisocial behaviour, success stories and
upcoming events.
We have recently been carrying out community patrols making everyone is abiding
by the new rules set in place to reduce the spread of coronavirus. If you
believe people aren’t adhering to the stay at home instruction then please
report via sCambscops.pnn.police.uk. If you would like see what we are up to
then please follow us on Policing South Cambridgeshire on Facebook.
Crime trends
Recently there has been an increase in criminal damage being caused to vehicles
a place that has been targeted in particular is Caldecote with vehicles being
scratched and wing mirrors being broken. We have increased our patrols in
relation to this. If you suspect something please report it.
I would like to make you aware of a scam
An email or text message that sates it’s from HMRC.GOV.UK
The government has taken urgent action to list coronavirus as a notifiable disease
in law as a result of this they are issuing a new tax refund programme. You are
eligible for a refund of…….
Access your fund now.
Emails, text messages, instant messages such as the one below are a scam. Do
not click on blue or any colour links within electronic messages unless you
have verified who the sender is.
If in doubt, don’t click.
Links are just a shortcut to a website.
Instead, you could consider logging into your account the message refers to,
using your tried, tested and trusted way.
So, if the message appears to be from HMRC and you do actually have a HMRC
account, then come out of your email account and visit www.gov.uk and login that way rather than clicking
on a link.
If you don’t have a HMRC account then be very suspicious and ignore it.
Visit Action Fraud www.actionfraud.police.uk
the national reporting centre for fraud and computer crime