Bloody … Hell … !
I mentioned — only a couple of days ago — that we’d had a certain amount of letterbox theft in Rollason Way.
Indeed, had written a letter to my neighbours about it.
I have to admit, things are getting … serious …
Last night, I talked with one of my neighbours: one who’s been targeted by identity fraudsters as a result — we both felt — of letterbox theft.
He’d received four unwanted credit cards as a result of action by fraudsters.
With a credit limit, between them, of some £9000.
After post had seemingly been lifted from the front letterbox.
At any rate, that would’ve been money my neighbour would be liable to repay: if the thieves had spent anything on it.
One other point, there? The thieves that HAVE been spotted — and caught — were spotted wearing hi-visibility jackets and carrying parcels. It’s a modern variation of an old trick. Burglars will scout out an area, wearing a hi-vis jacket and carrying a clipboard: disguising their activities by pretending to be surveyors or workmen, carrying out initials checks of an area.
There’s something else, too. Yesterday, I came home, and checked my letterbox, to see if there was anything in it.
There was nothing. But … ? But I found that the lock on the box’s inside hatch — the hatch that let’s us get our post out, after the postman’s put it in — was jamming. I believe my postbox has been forced: and any post stolen.
Frankly? With my credit history, any one trying to get a credit card in my name will have trouble doing so. But that doesn’t mean someone won’t try.
I immediately reported this too the police. Who were brutally honest, and told me that there was little they could do, as no-one had spotted it, nor was there any CCTV footage.
And to my landlords, responsible for repairs.
As you can imagine, I’m not exactly happy about the police response. Unhappy …
And thinking I’d like know what on EARTH my landlords plan to do about this. I know it takes a while for a big organisation to move.
But we’re not exactly hearing anything from them …
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