Mail Scam

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)

[the_lone_wolf]

for the doubters:

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/pds.asp

There's another one too. You pay for postage, pop your letter in a little red box and then the postal workers decide that work sucks and go and play garden bowls

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

There's another one too. You pay for postage, pop your letter in a little red box and then the postal workers decide that work sucks and go and play garden bowls

meow

Hovis are you aware that you are posting very useful info and good points lately. Cheers for the heads up

Originally Posted by plowsie

Hovis are you aware that you are posting very useful info and good points lately. Cheers for the heads up

Hovis asked me to tell you he's sorry for this program, the interruption will resume in a few moments!

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

for the doubters:

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/pds.asp

Yeah, but if you read that link, or this one, also found amongst others on Google, you'll see it was shut down on the number specified back in December 2005, rendering this yet another of those wasteful hoaxes cluttering up our mail servers and forums:

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/pds-phone-scam.html

you'd think that as it had registered a number, and money was changin hands, they could easily hunt them down with a large pack of lions

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

There's another one too. You pay for postage, pop your letter in a little red box and then the postal workers decide that work sucks and go and play garden bowls

LMAO

Originally Posted by WRCSixtyThree

rendering this yet another of those wasteful hoaxes cluttering up our mail servers and forums:

so.......... its like 90% of the other threads in IB