postal scam

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Postal Scam To Be Aware Of - This is a genuine scam that Royal Mail have been made aware of!

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Can you circulate this around especially as Xmas is fast approaching -

it has been confirmed by Royal Mail. The Trading Standards Office are making people aware of the following scam:

A card is posted through your door from a company called PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and that you need to contact them on 0906 6611911 (a premium rate number).

DO NOT call this number, as this is a mail scam originating from Belize.

If you call the number and you start to hear a recorded message you will
already have been billed £15 for the phone call.

If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 02072396655 or ICSTIS (the premium rate service regulator) at
www.icstis.org.uk

Please circulate this to avoid anyone else being ripped off.

 

[TinyTim]

We should all be wary of this kind of thing

But ...

From PhonepayPlus - formerly ICTIS

The chain email refers to a service that was shut down by us in December 2005.

• We subsequently fined the company that was operating the service, Studio Telecom
(based in Belize), £10,000.

• The service is NO LONGER running and has NOT been running since December 2005.

• The email refers to a £15 charge for simply being connected to a recorded message.

This is NOT TRUE – a £15 connection charge does NOT exist. The service in question
actually cost £1.50 per minute and lasted six minutes, making a total cost of £9 if callers
stayed on the line for the full six minutes.


What this is really is a chain email scam 

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just sent to me this evening.....

thought may be worth posting 

[TinyTim]

Always better safe than sorry mate