Beware Phishing attack on people with webmail September 29, 2010
Posted by cumbrianwa in Advisory, Phishing, Scam.Tags: Phishing scam
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Beware Phishing attacks like the one I’ve just received below…
Please never disclose such information in emails. Your provider already knows your private details – they would never ask you to disclose them. Emails are inherently insecure anyway, so please never email anybody your bank details or passwords, some gangsters attempt to lure you into divulging private information, sometimes in piece-meal fashion, with scare tactics.
Please put such emails in the trash where they belong.
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From: info@upgrade.com
Subject: Attn: webmail Users
Date: 29 September 2010 18:24:01 BDT
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Reply-To: webm@engineer.com
Attn: webmail Users,
We are really sorry for the inconvenience we are making you pass
through,we are having problem with our database due to our recent upgrade
and we cant find your data,please we need to rectify this problem before
the next 24 hours if not you won,t be able to send or receive email
with your webmail account address.
Please fill the form below so we can rectify this problem as soon
as possible.
* E-mail:
* User ID:
* Password:
* Re-type Password:
* Date of Birth:
NOTE:Your data and information will not be interfered with or tampered
we will just record your data back into our data base and send you an
email and after 24hours.
Thank you for using webmail services.
Webmail services.
MAINTAINACE TEAM
Warning!!! Account owner that refuse to send this information after one
weeks of receiving this warning will lose his/her mail account
permanently.
Neighbourhood Watch Swap!! September 27, 2010
Posted by cumbrianwa in Community Action, Members.Tags: Barrow CDRP
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You’ve heard of wife swap, now we want to start a Watch swap!!! Well….actually we don’t want to swap watches….we want to swap ideas but I thought that would grab your attention!
My name is Rebecca and I am the Co-ordinator for the Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership (also known as Community Safety Partnerships) here in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
In Barrow we have a number of Neighbourhood Watch groups and Community groups that all do fantastic work on a daily basis. About a year ago representatives from many of these groups started coming together once every 3 months or so for a coffee and a chat. These meeting shave grown and more and more groups are joining all the time. We have started to call the group Bringing Communities Together (it seemed a little snappier than ‘Neighbourhood Watch and Community groups 3-monthly get together!)
We make no difference between groups that are fully affiliated neighbourhood watches and those that are community groups. Even those groups who are very informal are welcome to come along, find out what everyone else is doing and work together to share and find solutions.
The group is driven by a local neighbourhood watch co-ordinator from the Fife Street group. His name is Pete Thomas and he has been dong this for a lot longer than I have been in my current role. He is the driving force and, along with other members of the community, they organise the meetings, invite speakers, follow up on attendees and generally do all the running around needed to make things work. If and when the group needs any help, myself and other people from local agencies do our very best…..be that providing a room and refreshments, going along to meetings to provide support or information, or anything else the local community ask us to do!
Now the point of this communication…….the group work together well and are always coming up with new ideas and ways of working. What they have wanted for a while is to go and visit a neighbourhood watch or community group in another area to see how things work there. Are you that group? Do things work well where you are? Would you be willing to support a visit from us in sunny Barrow? We want to share and swap ideas with you!
We are looking to visit somewhere within a travelling distance of around 2-3 hours. If you are further afield we still want to here form you. Maybe we could exchange ideas by e-mail or via video conferencing! We are getting rather technical around here!!
If you would be willing to show us around your area and tell us about how you do things we would love to come and visit. Please get in touch in one of the following ways:
Rebecca Rawlings, Co-ordinator of Barrow CDRP, 242-244 Dalton Road, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. LA14 1PN. Phone: 01229 876475 or 07747446234. E-mail: rrawlings@barrowbc.gov.uk
Pete Thomas, Co-ordinator of Fife Street Neighbourhood Watch, 6 Fife Street, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. LA13 9BU. Phone: 01229 832136.
I should also say in conclusion that we would love to show you what goes on here…so if you are interested in doing a proper swap….you come here and we visit there…..get in touch!
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Kind regards, Rebecca & Pete
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At The Bluebell Bookshop: Literature In Our Locality September 16, 2010
Posted by cumbrianwa in Event.2 comments
This series of events may be of interest to our members.
You are warmly invited to join a series of free informal talks to be held at Penrith’s excellent Bluebell Bookshop! Alongside probably being Cumbria’s most lovable independent book retailer with particularly fine selections of books on Cumbrian themes, social and environmental matters, and for children – The Bluebell Bookshop also serves as a very convivial community space with good quality refreshments available on hand. As many of you are probably aware, Derek Robinson, the friendly proprietor, often holds interesting get-togethers there. One very recently, and laudably, raised £320 in aid of Pakistan’s flood victims.
For details of the forthcoming series of informal talks, please see below.
Bluebell bookshop
Angel square, Penrith
01768 866660
Attendance free
coffee and cakes available at reasonable pricesLITERATURE IN OUR LOCALITY
a series of informal talks by Robin Acland
- Friday 17 September – 7.00 Wordsworth, Dorothy and Mademoiselle
- Friday 8 October- 7.00 Keats Walks Cumbria
- Friday 29 October- 7.00 Mary Powley, Stalwart of Langwathby
- Friday 19 November- 7.00 Wartime Poets in Penrith
Wordsworth, Dorothy and Mademoiselle
An exploration of our hero’s affair with Annette Vallon, drawing on the limited evidence
available. Why did he leave her, when she was well advanced in her pregnancy? What do we make
of the strange gap of several months when his movements a little later cannot be traced? How
did all these events really affect Dorothy?
Keats Walks Cumbria
Keats spent a week walking the length of Cumbria with his friend Charles Brown in 1818. Their
letters and journals are extensive. But perhaps there is a critical undisclosed event that academics
have not tumbled to. They may also have underestimated the extent to which his time in Cumbria
influenced all Keats’s later poetry
Mary Powley, Stalwart of Langwathby
Eldest child of a prominent farming family in Langwathby, Mary Powley published a collection of
fine if conventional Victorian verse, plus some effective dialect pieces. More extraordinarily, for a
woman who perhaps never went beyond Cumberland and Westmorland, she translated several
poems from the Danish. How come? Does her will throw any light?
Wartime Poets in Penrith
With the evacuation to Penrith of Newcastle Royal Grammar School in the Second World War, a
surprising influx of poets appeared in Penrith. Central was Michael Roberts, later editor of the first
Faber Book of Modern Verse. Eventually more famous was Kathleen Raine. Even T S Eliot appeared.
There are plentiful insights into wartime life and literature here.—————————- If you could pass the word or post the flier below where it can be noticed, it would be much appreciated, thank you
Beware email tax rebate fraud September 11, 2010
Posted by cumbrianwa in Scam.3 comments
Ignore any email that purports to be from HMRC offering you a tax rebate. Legitimate contact will only happen by post.
Thank you.
