Crime, Scams and Policing - Harringay online2024-03-29T14:27:27Zhttps://harringayonline.com/forum/categories/crime-scams-and-policing/listForCategory?feed=yes&xn_auth=noCars Broken Into, Pemby. Others?tag:harringayonline.com,2024-03-11:844301:Topic:15674982024-03-11T08:10:06.279ZJustin Guesthttps://harringayonline.com/profile/JustinGuest
<p>We have had a spate of cars with smashed windows on Pemby in the last month. It’s not clear if anything specifically has been taken. I know of four, it could be at least five. </p>
<p>Is any other street facing a similar problem, or is it just Pemby?</p>
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<p>We have had a spate of cars with smashed windows on Pemby in the last month. It’s not clear if anything specifically has been taken. I know of four, it could be at least five. </p>
<p>Is any other street facing a similar problem, or is it just Pemby?</p>
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<p></p> How to avoid a new generation of scams that are using AI to imitate friends & relativestag:harringayonline.com,2024-01-26:844301:Topic:15638852024-01-26T10:26:59.567Zmichaelwhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/michaelw
<p>I would recommend that everyone reads this article and considers what they can do to make sure they - and their family and friends - do not get caught out:</p>
<p><a href="https://tidbits.com/2024/01/25/how-to-avoid-ai-voice-impersonation-and-similar-scams/">https://tidbits.com/2024/01/25/how-to-avoid-ai-voice-impersonation-and-similar-scams/</a></p>
<p><em>"The key element of the scam is that a close family member, friend, or colleague is in dire need. The purported urgency and potential…</em></p>
<p>I would recommend that everyone reads this article and considers what they can do to make sure they - and their family and friends - do not get caught out:</p>
<p><a href="https://tidbits.com/2024/01/25/how-to-avoid-ai-voice-impersonation-and-similar-scams/">https://tidbits.com/2024/01/25/how-to-avoid-ai-voice-impersonation-and-similar-scams/</a></p>
<p><em>"The key element of the scam is that a close family member, friend, or colleague is in dire need. The purported urgency and potential threat against the caller’s freedom or ability to return home override the normal critical thinking most people would bring to bear. The scammers also often call in the middle of the night when we’re less likely to be alert, or attempt to take advantage of cognitive declines or hearing problems in older family members.</em></p>
<p><em>The <strong>AI voice impersonation aspect adds a “future shock” element: none of us are prepared for a call from a thoroughly convincing version of someone we know well. It’s already happening</strong>"</em></p> Appeal for information: murder of Jonah Ho-Shuetag:harringayonline.com,2024-01-09:844301:Topic:15625882024-01-09T17:46:58.144ZPetehttps://harringayonline.com/profile/PeteSnow
<div>A young man called Jonah Ho-Shue was stabbed and killed on 4th January on Albert Road in Stroud Green. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67914135" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67914135</a></div>
<div>The police haven't arrested anyone. If anyone out there saw something, please come forward. As I understand it, literally any small piece of information could be a lead.</div>
<div>A young man called Jonah Ho-Shue was stabbed and killed on 4th January on Albert Road in Stroud Green. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67914135" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67914135</a></div>
<div>The police haven't arrested anyone. If anyone out there saw something, please come forward. As I understand it, literally any small piece of information could be a lead.</div> Suspicious coffee shops and bars to the north of Wood Greentag:harringayonline.com,2023-11-27:844301:Topic:15594692023-11-27T16:58:24.193ZLarahttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Sara76
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I'm writing this because I really feel at the end of my rope. I live between Bowes Park and Wood Green and I don't want to leave the area but I just feel so sad about some of the things I am seeing and its getting me down.</p>
<p>Although this technically happened Enfield it's right on the border, as in within 10 feet. In the summer there was this stabbing and fatality: …</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I'm writing this because I really feel at the end of my rope. I live between Bowes Park and Wood Green and I don't want to leave the area but I just feel so sad about some of the things I am seeing and its getting me down.</p>
<p>Although this technically happened Enfield it's right on the border, as in within 10 feet. In the summer there was this stabbing and fatality: <span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04x9m4jzvmo">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04x9m4jzvmo</a> - resulting this the Kuq E Zi coffee shop was closed all summer with forensic police there every day for months. It has now had its license removed and not opened back up. D</span><span>uring this time the coffee shop Scutari next door shut down but now the police have gone they are open again but with the windows frosted.</span></p>
<p><span>The other side of Kuq E Zi is another Coffee Shop (Melodia) and 100 yard away is another Markos. They all have the same thing in common, no one in the area ever goes in them, they block out the windows so people can't see inside, they have the same small group of men that sit there 24/7 drinking bottles of water and smoking with their very expensive blacked cars parked on the pavement outside. They are very intimating, especially when its late at night, I have been harassed, there are fights, drug taking and makes the whole area feel unsafe. </span></p>
<p><span>I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist but I think they are used for money laundering and are related to drugs (<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10126277/Face-face-devil-Drug-selling-Albanian-Blood-Instagram-page-1-000-followers.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10126277/Face-face-devil-Drug-selling-Albanian-Blood-Instagram-page-1-000-followers.html</a>). There is no way these places can make enough to cover the business costs and rent from 4 people drinking water all day, they must be making money elsewhere. After the stabbing and the police investigation I feel like I'm right about this but I don't know how anything can be done.</span></p>
<p><span>There is now a new coffee shop / bar going to open Myddleton road, Bar 777 which has blacked out curtains. When my husband walked past and got speaking to what seemed like the owner, he said it was going to be a coffee shop in the front but to come because and there will be gambling in the back. Why he confessed this I have no idea but this seems again, another one of these "coffee shops".</span></p>
<p><span>I have spoken to councillors, emailed the neighbourhood watch police email, ASBO, Licensing - pretty much everyone to find out what can be done but either I don't get a reply or the emails bounce back. </span></p>
<p><span>I just don't know what can be done but the area seems to be getting filled with these businesses and nothing people who actually live here want to goto. The one councillor who got back to me told me to collect feedback from other residents or evidence, I have been trying my best but obviously the description of the businesses doesn't make me feel safe doing that but I'm honestly out of ideas.</span></p>
<p><span>I'm just wondering if anyone else has encountered these places and knows what could be done to help the area feel more safe.</span></p>
<p><span>Thank you</span></p> Snatch Thieves on Wightman Roadtag:harringayonline.com,2023-11-23:844301:Topic:15589992023-11-23T23:06:16.507ZAudreyhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Audrey845
<p>My phone was grabbed from my hands this evening as I was on the corner of Wightman and Umfreville Roads. The two men were on motorbikes and rode on the curb and grabbed it out of my hands.</p>
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<p>My phone was grabbed from my hands this evening as I was on the corner of Wightman and Umfreville Roads. The two men were on motorbikes and rode on the curb and grabbed it out of my hands.</p>
<p></p> Beware of this woman (cont 2)tag:harringayonline.com,2023-10-05:844301:Topic:15541202023-10-05T13:26:22.213ZValerie Shipphttps://harringayonline.com/profile/ValerieShipp
<p>Thankyou, David Parnell, for your suggestion, but I tried and tried for an hour to get through to the right people at Metroline, being guided to about five different numbers and a disappearing email address and ending up 4th in a queue on the phone, when I was cut off. Very reluctantly, I have to give up trying to talk to the bus police about this woman. I could give them a very good description of her. I also know the date, bus route and time of arrival of the bus.</p>
<p>Thankyou, David Parnell, for your suggestion, but I tried and tried for an hour to get through to the right people at Metroline, being guided to about five different numbers and a disappearing email address and ending up 4th in a queue on the phone, when I was cut off. Very reluctantly, I have to give up trying to talk to the bus police about this woman. I could give them a very good description of her. I also know the date, bus route and time of arrival of the bus.</p> Left-hand-drive SUV stolen - door-cam pictures soughttag:harringayonline.com,2023-10-04:844301:Topic:15540292023-10-04T08:52:35.964ZKseniiahttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Kseniia
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<p>Dear members of Harringay Online.<br></br> <br></br> I'm your neighbour from Sydney Road on Harringay Ladder. Our <strong>left</strong>-hand-drive<strong> Mitsubishi ASX</strong> with a <strong>Ukrainian plate number</strong> was stolen at 11 pm on the 2nd of October from Sydney Road.</p>
<p>If anyone has access to the cameras facing the Ladder…</p>
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<p>Dear members of Harringay Online.<br/> <br/> I'm your neighbour from Sydney Road on Harringay Ladder. Our <strong>left</strong>-hand-drive<strong> Mitsubishi ASX</strong> with a <strong>Ukrainian plate number</strong> was stolen at 11 pm on the 2nd of October from Sydney Road.</p>
<p>If anyone has access to the cameras facing the Ladder streets, could you check please, if there was any footage of the car from 11 pm onwards on that day. We're trying to find it, we desparately need it.<br/> <br/> Only a month ago we brought it from Ukraine, wanted to sell it as I got redundant and we rent privately. The rent is about 2k per month, so we needed the money. We come from Kharkiv, the very eastern city in Ukraine which is being shelled every single day by Russians, therefore can't go back home :( We also have a 7 year old son. </p>
<p>Please, please, if you could just check the footage, we appreciate any information.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading this message.</p>
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<p></p> Beware of this woman (cont)tag:harringayonline.com,2023-09-28:844301:Topic:15535692023-09-28T11:23:29.897ZValerie Shipphttps://harringayonline.com/profile/ValerieShipp
<p>Thank you for your replies and actions. The more people know about her the better. I do not think that the police will have much time for my complaint as she did not manage to steal anything and her mask makes bus CCTV less useful. I thought at the time that I could take a photo of her while she was waiting to get out of the bus, but she would probably have snatched my phone.</p>
<p>Thank you for your replies and actions. The more people know about her the better. I do not think that the police will have much time for my complaint as she did not manage to steal anything and her mask makes bus CCTV less useful. I thought at the time that I could take a photo of her while she was waiting to get out of the bus, but she would probably have snatched my phone.</p> Beware of this womantag:harringayonline.com,2023-09-25:844301:Topic:15530362023-09-25T15:01:39.721ZValerie Shipphttps://harringayonline.com/profile/ValerieShipp
<p>I am a white-haired old lady with a shopping trolley. Perfect prey.</p>
<p>Today a tallish attractive woman in expensive-looking clothes and white trainers plonked down next to me on the W7 bus, very close, although there were empty seats across the aisle. I had to move my trolley to make space for her. She wore a loose light grey knitted shawl or cardigan and a blue surgical mask and had long slim fingers and a topknot or bun, I think.</p>
<p>I was concerned at her constant fidgetting and…</p>
<p>I am a white-haired old lady with a shopping trolley. Perfect prey.</p>
<p>Today a tallish attractive woman in expensive-looking clothes and white trainers plonked down next to me on the W7 bus, very close, although there were empty seats across the aisle. I had to move my trolley to make space for her. She wore a loose light grey knitted shawl or cardigan and a blue surgical mask and had long slim fingers and a topknot or bun, I think.</p>
<p>I was concerned at her constant fidgetting and invasion of my space and was not surprised to find that she had her hand inside my handbag which was on my lap and had been closed. I saw the flap rising up just in time.</p>
<p>I said to her: 'You are a thief. Get out. You were putting your hand in my handbag.'</p>
<p>She denied it but got off at the next stop.</p>
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<p></p> Man attacked by dog on Wightman Road: Saturday 16 September, 6.30pmtag:harringayonline.com,2023-09-16:844301:Topic:15522312023-09-16T18:36:38.036ZGlamorgeoushttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Glamorgeous
<p>My husband and our dog were attacked by a large dog, running off lead with his female owner on a bike on Wightman Road, between Cavendish and Duckett Roads at approximately 6.30pm, on Saturday 16 September. The woman was cycling north on the north side pavement; the dog ran across the road to attack my husband and our small dog. </p>
<p>Did you see anything?</p>
<p>If so, please DM me.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Thank you very much </p>
<p>My husband and our dog were attacked by a large dog, running off lead with his female owner on a bike on Wightman Road, between Cavendish and Duckett Roads at approximately 6.30pm, on Saturday 16 September. The woman was cycling north on the north side pavement; the dog ran across the road to attack my husband and our small dog. </p>
<p>Did you see anything?</p>
<p>If so, please DM me.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Thank you very much </p>