On 25/01/13 12:46, Roger Munford wrote:
> I just received a scamming call from Asia and spent some time playing
> gullible while trying to get my wife to phone the police/BT with a
> hope that the call could be traced and stopped.
>
> However the police, "actionfraud" operator told that there was nothing
> that could be done and BT operator services aren't working today.
>
> I managed to get the dog barking and told "Jeff" that I had to go and
> he could call me this afternoon.
>
> Is there anything further that I can do?
>
>
> Roger
This has become big business for the criminal underworld - so much so,
that the Police unit which was formed to act against it, was disbanded,
and its role ended. As far as I know, there has been NFA on this kind
of thing, since 1999. The focus is on the big boys - not small fry, who
only carry out the orders of their seniors.
There is just too much activity in that sphere, for the agencies to cope
with. We have been abandoned to suffer it on our own !
Sorry to give you the bad news,
L
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gospel of earth, ringing with hope, like May mornings with bird-song,
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healed must absorb it not only into their bodies in daily food and
warmth but into their minds, because its spiritual power is more
intense. It is not reasonable to suppose that an essence so divine and
mysterious as life can be confined to material things; therefore, if our
bodies need to be in touch with it so do our minds. The joy of a spring
day revives a man's spirit, reacting healthily on the bone and the
blood, just as the wholesome juices of plants cleanse the body, reacting
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crushed gold of harvest and ripe vine-clusters, for our souls the purple
fruit of evening with its innumerable seed of stars ". Vis Medicatrix
Naturae, by Mary Webb, in Spring of Joy: Nature Essays, Constable,
London, 1917 "
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