by Clerk | Jan 24, 2024 | Newsletter
Trading Standards would like to share some more scams with you today One of our partners has shared a scam facebook post that was believed to be genuine and added to a local groups face book page offering eggs for sale. We have no idea how the scam works but on doing...
by Clerk | Dec 13, 2023 | Newsletter
Heading into Christmas we are going to share some of the more prolific scams that are being reported on the Island. The main one being a computer generated call stating that payments have been taken from your Visa/Mastercard account and to press 1 to report a fraud....
by Clerk | Dec 4, 2023 | Newsletter
Trading Standards have a variety of scams to share with you today – We have received a large number of reports from residents who have had cold callers at their door from Wightfibre, they have been quite pushy with older more vulnerable residents and have...
by Clerk | Nov 8, 2023 | Newsletter
A gathering will be held for those wishing to observe a 2 minute silence beside the Garden of Remembrance on Oak Tree Green at 11.00am this Sunday 12th November. Please meet at 10.50am – All welcome.
by Clerk | Nov 2, 2023 | Newsletter
A few of our residents have received a scam letter telling them that they have won £900,000 in the FIFA World Cup Lottery Programme. The letter contains reference numbers (for legitimacy) it mentions lots of organisations that all sound very genuine and puts pressure...
