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Postal Scam

Can you circulate this around especially as Christmas 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 £315 for the phone call.

If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 020 7239 6655.

Cheers for that Shallot Man.

Just a thought, i wonder if you get charged for ringing the Royal Mail fraud squad as well, now that would be bad luck.

Shallot Man wrote:Postal Scam

Can you circulate this around especially as Christmas 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 £315 for the phone call.

If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 020 7239 6655.

Scam scam

This round robin e-mail has been circulating for five years now

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

Ignore

We had several phone calls recently regarding bank charges, asking for our bank details as we were due a refund. The first time I told him I would pass him over to my husband to go through what he was telling me. I knew it was a scam. He hung up before I passed him over.

Then the next night they rang again. And the next night they got my OH who asked them which Bank, they said Nat West, he said that we had no account with NAt West, they hung up. They rang back once more for another popular bank, we hung up.

But there will be some people who will give them bank details and with a terrible outcome.

If they ever ring again I am going to tell them that I will just go and get my bank details and then leave the phone on the kitchen work top and see how long they hold on.