Are you being scammed?
Last meeting was held at Tides community centre (thank you Val and John, and everyone involved in set up).
The guest speaker last week was Nicki Trenham from Office of Fair Trading who spoke to the club about. the increasing incidence of "scamming" which we found out is still catching folks out and costing some in the community lots of money.
The clear message was, don't react rashly to scams requesting urgent action.
Be suspicious of any unexpected email. Be cautious in answering any calls from outside your contacts, do not engage with them, and do not share your password or PIN with strangers.
There was a good Q & A session afterwards, and its clear that most of our members have been approached by scammers in the past, and are relatively savvy - although as Nicki says every year over $400M is scammed from folks, and all of them thought they were savvy before they got scammed.
Take care out there.
Geoff reaches out Festuri
Members will recall Toria and Mick who came to talk to the club about the Multi Cultural Festival "Festuri" held at Rotary Park in Cotton Tree every year.
Toria spoke about he need to gather up support for the festival - which is run entirely by volunteers and dependant on community support to put on every year.
and in true club "CanDo" fashion Alex Rotary has responded. Please see Geoff's note to Toria and the Festuri management below.
Stay tuned. and remember "Diversity is Free...but Inclusion challenges us all and you have to work at it"... (ed)
...Fraom PE Geoff..
Toria,
Thank you for your email. As Rotary is a club of like-minded community focussed people, we would prefer to assemble a team of Rotary volunteers and take on a specific task to support Festuri rather than have each member "do their own thing". We are always stronger working together as a team.
We could certainly do a BBQ stall, but it would also assist us to achieve our objectives if as a team we were to assist you with any of the following:
- Set up for performers and stallholders
- Pack down
- Traffic / parking control
- Information tent.
We area happy to work with you to make Festuri at Cotton Tree a huge success. Let me know how many volunteers you can use, and we will assemble a team of Rotarians.
Regards
Geoff East
President Elect 2024 - 2025
