WhatsApp Account Compromise

Criminals are targeting WhatsApp users, taking over accounts and trying to defraud or hack their friends too. The criminals abuse the legitimate process of transferring a WhatsApp account from one phone to another.  They use an already compromised account to message the account owner’s contacts. Please follow these steps to protect yourself from scams.

Mobile Phone upgrade scams are on the rise.  Please look at this guidance from the police.

Dear all

This survey is to monitor the BAME population's perception of the Safeguarding process for Adults in the borough. Current data indicates that the number of safeguarding referrals for the BAME population is much lower than the number of people represented by this population in the borough. This survey was commissioned by the Sutton Safeguarding Adults Board (SSAB) and designed with members of the Race Equality Group in Sutton to ensure we captured the concerns within the BAME community regarding the adult safeguarding process.  Your personal information will remain anonymous. Please assist with forwarding this email with the link to staff and colleagues in this borough. Thank you.

Survey Link

The closing date for the survey is Friday 25 June 2021.

Sutton is participating in the online Safe Spaces initiative, an initiative led by the Royal Mail group and charity Hestia, part of the UK Says No More campaign against domestic abuse and sexual violence.Online safe Spaces. When the logo is clicked on (usually placed at the bottom of your website), it provides discreet access to local and national information on domestic abuse, a questionnaire ‘Am I at risk’ as well as having a quick exit button. Furthermore, the page is not recorded in a user’s browsing history, only the main site that you are accessing the button from.' If you are interested in having this on your website then you need to send an email to community@royalmail.com to register your interest and they will respond with an email with the technical details of how to set it up.

With the Right to Ask, anyone who has concerns about an individual's past history of domestic abuse can make a Right to Ask request to the police, so a Social Worker can do this, the partner, family member, a friend, neighbour. The police will then check their records for this person. They will only provide information that is relevant to domestic abuse and this information will be given in person to the female who is in that relationship. The Right to Know is where there is knowledge that someone is at risk of being in a relationship with a known perpetrator they will then give this information in person to the partner at risk. To request information under Clare’s Law from the police, please click this link.