Bantay Salakay

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A barangay tanod (watchman) whose duty is to protect and serve the community can be a perpetrator as well. They are called Bantay Salakay.

It is important to conduct background check to all personnel we hire. It is better to be safe than sorry in the end. Read Bantay Salakay to find out the importance of conducting background check. Kindly click this link http://kurukuronimye.com/2013/01/bantay-salakay-2/ to view the whole article

Inday's BF

Nowadays,it seems everybody has mobile phones even our very own *Inday, Manang and Manong.  Most Filipino employers’ complaints are their domestic staff nonstop use of mobile phones.  In most cases, household helpers are getting romantically linked to a complete stranger.

Kurukuro found out that some domestic staff go steady with their Romeos/Juliets without actually seeing or meeting them personally. They say, they find their significant others through a fellow town mate, friend of a friend and or through random texting/calling. Random texting/calling – a person looking for some company deliberately calls /text several numbers. Normally, most people who received the random text/call will simply ignore while a few became their text partners and the rest is history!

To find out more on this issue please go to http://kurukuronimye.com/2012/12/indays-bf/
Keeping you informed. Keeping you safe.

Are Copy Machines a Security Risk?



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Have you ever used a copier machine to scan, fax or copy documents that are sensitive in nature? Did you use a public copier machine to photocopy a personal document? Do you worry that somebody got hold of it because you only learned NOW that copier machines can store documents in its hard drive.

Please go to www.kurukuronimye.com and click the ARE COPY MACHINES A SECURITY RISK? This article is about the risk in using copier machines for your protection against identity theft.

Senior Tirador Gang

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Protecting our elderly should come as a priority. Recent news shows that houses occupied by elderly residents are magnet to the eyes of criminals. Home invasion can rob residents of not only their possessions. Serious injury or death could result. However, we can always avoid being their target by being informed and takes necessary precautions.

Please go to this website www.kurukuronimye.com and read Senior Tirador Gang for the latest update on home invasion targeting senior citizens.

Stranger Abduction

To all parents and guardians, are you going to teach your kids to help someone when their assistance is needed by a stranger? A 16 year old student extended help to a stranger, an old woman. She ended up being abducted. Luckily, she was able to escape from her abductors.

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Does helping someone advisable nowadays? If you’re going to ask a 16 year old female student  from Taguig City, she will strongly say NO! Her negative answer was based from her own experience after she was abducted by five unidentified men on September 19, 2012. According to the victim, when she came out of the school campus gate, an old woman approached her and requested her assistance to bring all her belongings in her van parked nearby. She was old and cannot stand to carry heavy stuff. The victim obliged and carried all her stuff to the van. When the woman opened the vehicle, five unidentified suspects snatched her and made her smell a strange chemical. She passed out. She woke up inside a closed van. She hurriedly escaped when the van they were riding halted and her captors were about to alight from the van. The suspects did not run after.

For more information on this new modus, please go to the main website of kurukuronimye.com and CLICK STRANGER ABDUCTION

The Real Reason Behind the Creation of Kurukuro

Dear Reader,

Thanks for visiting my website.

I now heave a sigh of relief as I lead you on to reading this "love letter" in its entirety. Yes, I call it a "love letter" because "care" is what this whole thing is all about. Oh no, this isn't me professing my undying love for you, don't worry (I have reserved myself for Brad Pitt, after all!). Allow me to explain.

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When I was much younger, my parents didn't have to endure the fear of having a heart attack as I played freely in the streets, walked home from school alone at night, and (unreasonably) spent all my allowance in the mall all by my lonesome. Neither was I ever wary of trusting our househelp or commuting to and from home. Everything was just safe.

Needless to say, things are quite different now; not just where I'm from, but everywhere around the world. Now that I'm a parent myself, I've realized that every bit of information I get about how to keep my family safe is as important as safety itself. I would love to attribute my undying paranoia to all the coffee I've consumed (it just sounds like a better excuse) but I also believe what they say: better safe than sorry.

Some years ago I worked a security analyst for an Asia-based business risk consultancy firm. Not so very Mrs. Smith (I wasn't tasked to kill my husband), more like Inspector Gadget (but no fancy hat or trench coat), and boy did I feel I had a purpose! I hate crime with a passion but I love solving it and helping people prevent it. Regrettably, I left my job not long after I joined the company because just like you, I had to pay the bills. But I couldn't move on and started blogging about safety and security on Blogspot ( thank you so much blogspot! ) just months later. I had a growing audience and received so much encouragement from my readers; a year later, I took the big leap and kurukuronimye.com was born.

Fast forward to now, it's been a whole year that I've been on this website. I've redesigned bits and pieces, changed this and changed that, all for the love of my readers.

Now, if you're not from the Philippines, know that this is a generally safe place to visit. Although like many other countries, bad things happen here too and that's what I'm here for, to keep you armed with information so you'll know what to do, what to avoid, and how to live a worry-free life (well not 100%, who doesn't drink coffee anyway?).

Thanks again for visiting and feel free to shoot me an email, ask questions, request for advice, report anything you feel needs to be reported. More than anything, kurukuronimye.com is a safety hub, a community of people who wish to work together to keep the world informed and safe.

Best and love to you all,



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Mye

New Modus in Village Parks

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It is always fun for our children to be out in the park with friends, whether talking, cycling, walking or playing games and sports. These activities are great for your children, if your neighborhood has safe playgrounds and playmates. Robbery syndicates use children to rob children of homeowners whom they met in the park.

  

If you think parks and playgrounds are safe, some areas are not. There is a new modus in village parks and playgrounds.  For more information regarding this new modus just go to   kurukuronimye.com  and  please CLICK NEW MODUS IN VILLAGE PARKS