Community & Welfare Notices
Listen in: is ticket fraud ruining football?
When it comes to big sporting events, fraudsters are always looking to take advantage of fans desperate to find a ticket. Resale tickets for Euro 2020 were found to be selling for as much as £17,000, and similar prices were being touted for this year’s FIFA World Cup.
Listen in to our investigation into ticket fraud. We’ll hear from those who have lost thousands, explain how scammers operate, and investigate what needs to be done to combat it.
There’s now a much easier way to make us aware of scams directly with our scam sharer tool. Tell us your experiences of phishing emails, fake texts, cold calls and other types of fraud.
Stay safe,
Which? Scam Alert team
If you know of any member who is in hospital or just back home or in rehab who may need some help, do let me know so we can send a card at least and offer some practical help if needed. Similarly it would be good to offer our congratulations on any significant BIG birthday or anniversary. Let's show we in U3A care.
I have found a new source for our used stamps! The RNIB will send through the post a prepaid envelope or box (if you’ve collected a lot!). They ask that we trim stamps with approximately one centimetre of paper around the edge. To order a pre-paid envelope:
Visit: RNIB and complete the request form
Call: 0303 123 9999
Jennifer Thomas
Do you use WhatsApp on your phone?
You may already have seen this advice from Neighbourhood Watch, but we think it's a sensible precaution.
With thanks to Roger Slater
The U3A is not just about learning new things in your groups it is also about encouraging members to help neighbours. Much information and good stuff is available via the internet but, the Internet is only about 30 years old and we know that many of our members have not grown up with it. Email is even younger and again we know many members are not users of email.
One organisation that uses the Internet to keep information flowing is OWL.
Below is a description of OWL (Online Watch Link) taken from their web site.