Douglas Council to investigate 'corruption' allegations

[2bees]

If the thing about the houses is real, who would it be?

[Cinderella]

3 hours ago, WTF said:

i heard that on the moaning line today , winty read out the so called hacked email message sent to a manx radio employee denying an intention to resign and special meeting asking for a vote of confidence in some woman followed by caller 'eddie' claiming he would get stuff together for tomorrows phone in and asking/wondering why someone had actually resigned then ??  i have to say i have no idea what all the shit is about and wheteher hacked email message and resigned person are one in the same but no doubt all this bollocks will continue tomorrow on MR at lunchtime.

And speculation on MF in meantime 

[finlo]

35 minutes ago, 2bees said:

If the thing about the houses is real, who would it be?

Not sure about the who but the getting dilapidated property on the cheap to flip or do up and rent out rumour has been doing the rounds for donkeys years.

[Banker]

3 minutes ago, finlo said:

Not sure about the who but the getting dilapidated property on the cheap to flip or do up and rent out rumour has been doing the rounds for donkeys years.

Hasn’t been very successful in getting rid of dilapidated properties then as there’s 100s in Douglas area

[quilp]

1 minute ago, Banker said:

Hasn’t been very successful in getting rid of dilapidated properties then as there’s 100s in Douglas area

Depends on the level of dilapidation, cost of repairs, area, planning permission, etc.

 

[Apple]

5 hours ago, quilp said:

Depends on the level of dilapidation, cost of repairs, area, planning permission, etc.

Er...got any details and addresses....er,...asking for a friend...er..😀🤫

Seriously if it came from a gov. im account it can't have come from anyone in DBC surely as @Roger Mexicopointed out. Who or why would anyone in Govt want to distract or embarrass or deflect the real issue being about the bins? Doesn't make any sense.

[quilp]

6 minutes ago, Apple said:

Er...got any details and addresses....er,...asking for a friend...er..😀🤫

Seriously if it came from a gov. im account it can't have come from anyone in DBC surely as @Roger Mexicopointed out. Who or why would anyone in Govt want to distract or embarrass or deflect the real issue being about the bins? Doesn't make any sense.

Haven't the council discovered who the culprit is but won't as yet tell us who it is..? 

[Albert Tatlock]

38 minutes ago, quilp said:

Haven't the council discovered who the culprit is but won't as yet tell us who it is..? 

I'm sure they're about to find out...

 

[Declan]

Jimmy Hill? 

[Andy Onchan]

6 hours ago, Declan said:

Jimmy Hill? 

AKA.... Ron Manager!

[FANDL]

17 hours ago, Roger Mexico said:

It's a bit weird, not least because it seems to have taken Manx Radio a whole week to investigate it and they still seem to have no idea what they are doing.  They also say "Isle of Man Advertising - the organisation contracted by Douglas Borough Council for media services" has given them a statement and then say "Douglas Borough Council was contacted for an official statement yesterday (4 January).  At present, no response has been received".  But why should they if IOMA has already responded on their behalf[1]?   It's also a bit confusing in that they claim the email was "from [a] gov.im address".  But the official addresses are douglas.gov.im so which was it - and that's before you consider email spoofing.  So there may have been no security lapse at all.

[1] Whether this is a good thing or not is another matter, but it's what the current situation is.

Her job according to the DBC website is an IT administrator. It’s not a good advert for her employer if she can’t tell a hack from an email spoof after a week and as you say in your other post unless Alf Cannan or another councillor sent it who honestly cares? She clearly has issues associated with being unpopular and perhaps needs to look at herself rather than other (alleged) people as being the problem here. 

[Gladys]

9 minutes ago, FANDL said:

Her job according to the DBC website is an IT administrator. It’s not a good advert for her employer if she can’t tell a hack from an email spoof after a week and as you say in your other post unless Alf Cannan or another councillor sent it who honestly cares? She clearly has issues associated with being unpopular and perhaps needs to look at herself rather than other (alleged) people as being the problem here. 

You do understand that she was not the recipient of the email?  If the email was spoofed, how would she know it had been sent? 

[genericUserName]

39 minutes ago, FANDL said:

Her job according to the DBC website is an IT administrator. It’s not a good advert for her employer if she can’t tell a hack from an email spoof after a week and as you say in your other post unless Alf Cannan or another councillor sent it who honestly cares? She clearly has issues associated with being unpopular and perhaps needs to look at herself rather than other (alleged) people as being the problem here. 

What a nasty post. You clearly have issues.

Also - I disagree with you when you say "who honestly cares". Based on the reporting, that fake email seems fairly malicious.

[FANDL]

1 minute ago, genericUserName said:

What a nasty post.

What’s nasty about it? Her day job would appear to be administering IT systems so you would assume that she would be fully able to assess whether she’d been hacked or whether it was just a spoof. 

[Gladys]

11 minutes ago, FANDL said:

What’s nasty about it? Her day job would appear to be administering IT systems so you would assume that she would be fully able to assess whether she’d been hacked or whether it was just a spoof. 

How would she if she didn't have the email?  Apart from that, she probably doesn't have system admin rights at DBC.

Even I understand roughly what is alleged to have happened, and I am not very tech savvy.  You know about hovering your cursor over the email sender's address to check the real address sending it, I take it?