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Yes it got progressively harder as the week went on and then got easier for the prize crossword on Saturday
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Not synonyms, but still require translation to something other than the word(s) in the clue.
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It seems it occurs after update. Does anyone have the same problem?
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Nope. But then, you haven't given us any details on what crashes or what gets updated so it's difficult to tell ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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So I didn't open the Google search app. But it crashed in the background. (There is a pop-up message saying that). The Google app just got updated recently.
Anyway, I found someone who has the same problem with me in another forum. What they tell me is to stop the service or uninstall the Google App.
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Here is an interesting problem and I bet it’s not the first time this has happened!
Ours is a 2-man development company, for the sake of anonymity I am going to use PQR instead of our actual company name, so I have PQR Limited with a web site of PQR.co.uk.
Suddenly we start to receive phone calls from people in different countries who have paid for goods from what they think is our site and wanting to know when their purchases will be delivered! This is a bit of a surprise as we don't sell anything, we just use the site to advertise our services for hardware design and custom embedded software, there is no shop or e-commerce.
It turns out that some scammer has taken a similarly named https domain of PQRltd.com so pretending to be our company, they have even copied my business partners name and contact details. They are offering for sale all sorts of high-priced consumer electronic products. The poor people duped by the site having thought they made a purchase do not receive any goods, its blatant robbery.
In the UK we have actionfraud.police.uk and reporting this crime to them results in a comforting message of:
"The use of another person’s identity, often referred to as identity theft, is not a police recordable crime. Where the details are used to obtain goods or services, we can only record a crime on behalf of the person or organisation which was defrauded as a result of the misuse of an identity."
To ease any stress that we might be feeling as a result of the above response involved they add....
"Whilst we have not recorded this matter as a crime, we will still make use of the information you have provided. Information reports are utilised to enrich the overall intelligence picture which assists with the formulation and refinement of prevention strategies."
I am so happy to learn that in the UK identity theft is not a recordable crime and that the time wasted trying to research and report the problem (more than a day) has just served to enriched the picture. What a load of rubbish!
Any suggestions what realistic action I can take to try and stop the fraud taking place?
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For several years now I'm lecturing teenagers about identity theft on the internet to help them survive...
One of the things I've learned that even in countries with laws against, the bad guys lightyears ahead of the enforcers... The amount of the fraud communication is about 45% of all, which is actually burry every effort to stop it...
Looking into the UK's laws - electronic identity theft is not exists at all. They have to take some of your documents (or fake it) to make the police actually recognize a crime... In your case it not even a real theft as the fraud site is only 'looks-like'...
You may get some help for the ISP, that hosts the fraud site - but do not hope for much, they payed for it probably...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Something to add to your lectures.
If your students ever set up a business make certain to tell them not to use their home address as their registered business address no matter how enthusiastic they are to get to the start gate!
My business partner did this when we initially set up (many years ago before the internet  ) and then quietly under the radar the UK decided to put all its records on line in public display. This is one of the side effects of ill-conceived pre GDPR policy, I don't ever remember them asking us if it was OK!
Now if anyone feels aggrieved and want to blame us they have a name, town, street, and house number, it’s a bit of a nightmare.
I was wondering how to track down their ISP - any ideas?
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But nearly every business was in Yellow Pages or the BT directory, so there was no hiding even then. The only problem was the time it took to search.
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Brilliant!
Thank you very much, seems like their ISP is in Phoeinix and are called "namesilo".
Its somewhere to start. 
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Thanks very much, its a dot com domain they have registered, very similar to our .co.uk domain
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Wow, I shall do! 
Thanks very much.
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Namesilo is a legitimate DNS hosting and web hosting company (I happen to use them myself, amongst others). They have a complaints procedure and you can tell them what is happening and that your IP is being used without your permission for fraudulent purposes. They should act on this information.
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That's very useful - Thanks
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Les mt wrote: My business partner did this when we initially set up (many years ago before the internet ) and then quietly under the radar the UK decided to put all its records on line in public display. This is one of the side effects of ill-conceived pre GDPR policy, I don't ever remember them asking us if it was OK!
No it was not under the radar: It has always been this way, and quite rightly too. Limited company records have always been publicly available. Making them accessible via the Internet was just the continuation of the previous status quo.
This is nothing to do with "pre-GDPR". Even if the Internet had come along post-GDPR, these records would still be fully public. Why? Because limited company details are not private, should not be private, and never have been private. A limited company is not a person who can claim privacy (although it can be used as a legal person, but that's a different thing).
When you and your business partner set up your limited company pre-Internet, your company data was already publicly accessible via Companies House and its branches. When Internet accessibility came along, nothing changed. What was public before was still public afterwards.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Looking into the UK's laws - electronic identity theft is not exists at all.
From the perspective of the company. Don't forget there's a bunch of customers complaining about theft and fraud.
Very real crimes. Police gets involved before the numbers gets so big they attract media attention.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I think in this case, perhaps a lawyer would be better.
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You could put a warning on your site that PQRltd.com are a bunch of thieves. But then you will probably get a visit from PC Plod.
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But if he says something like "PQRltd.com is an independent site, having no connection to PQR.co.uk", that would pass muster. How much good that would do, I don't know.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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But don't do it in a way that you "attack" them... if not they could even sue you for defamation or something like that
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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