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It's interesting that, despite the complaints, we have had a lot of those "translate before you anagram" clues recently.
Three in a row I believe!
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Not quite with this one L & R ( hands ) are not synonyms
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I would never have guessed LR for hands.
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They are commonly used in cryptics
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I don't recall ever seeing that in The Spectator, Sunday Times or Telegraph crosswords. Although it's a while since I did either of the last two. The Spectator is fiendish enough to keep two of us occupied for a couple of days a week on and off.
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I've never tried The Spectator - I mainly did ( still do occasionaly ) The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times ( I contracted for Deloitte for 20+ years so there was always a copy of the FT lying around ). The Telegraph was always my favourite - not too easy and not too hard.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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In the days of newspapers I always like the Telegraph crossword. If I remember correctly Thursday's was usually a bit more difficult.
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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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