From Barnet Boroughwatch:
Dear resident,
Two new scams have been brought to our attention this
week.
Firstly a young woman has been knocking on doors in and
around Garden Suburb asking to borrow £20 as her car has been clamped and she
need the cash to top the £50 she already had to to pay the charge. She says that as her children were in the
vehicle she needed to act quickly. She promised to leave her wedding ring as
security. When pressed she became very
evasive and left the area quickly.
Number two is a letter purporting to from a firm of
solicitors in London informing the recipient that they are the subject of a
large bequest. As this is written in the
most basic and eccentric English it is an obvious scam.
Since April there have been 31 thefts of BMW 3 series
front bumpers and light clusters. BMW tell us that it would take a trained
mechanic 20 minutes to remove one! These
have all occured overnight. Our advice is to park the car against a garage door
or very close to another vehicle. As these items only fetch around £30 on Ebay
the motive is unclear.
On a more Worrying note, this scary scam has also been sited in the uk, where the scammer with pose as someone trying to injure you to extort money from you....
please see the full content of the fbi notice below and report any threats to the local Police.
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan07/threat_scam011507.htm
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News 
From Barnet Boroughwatch: Attention is drawn to two white
males in their early twenties who committed an artifice burglary in the
Oakleigh Park area of Whetstone. They pushed a note through the victims door to
the effect that they were police officers calling to install cctv.
Unfortunately they were able to gain an entry and stole cash. There is a good
chance that this could be repeated accross the borough.