Christmas Postal Scam Alert!

[JonnyBoy12]

Can you circulate this around as Christmas is fast approaching, and this has been confirmed by the 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 to you, 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 this number, and start to hear a recorded message you will already have been billed �15 for the phone call. If you do get a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 0207 239 6655 or ICSTIS (the premium rate service regulator) at www.icstis.org.uk

[banned-dot]

ooo that sounds like a deviously mean con to pull, especially when you know the elderly are not actually likely to answer their door and so they will get the cards too!!!

[Buenchico]

Utter b0llocks!!!!

http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/pdfs_news/email .pdf

Chris

[tiggerblue10]

I just received a call from this number: 07890000000.

It was a recorded message saying that I'd won something however I stopped the call after about 2 seconds.

How can I check out where or who this call came from. Looks definitely like a mobile number.

[dot.hawkes]

can't open that link Chris, what's it all about?

[Buenchico]

Dot:
If you can't open that link, Adobe Acrobat either isn't installed on your computer, or it isn't working. (You should get it sorted out or you won't be able to view any pdf files).

Basically, it's a statement from ICSTIS saying that the whole thing is an urban myth. There was a similar scam, back in 2005, but ICSTIS disconnected the phone lines on 29/12/05.

Further, it's impossible for any phone service to charge you �15 on connection. The maximum that you can be charged for a premium rate call is �1.50 per minute.

There's a chain email, doing the rounds at the moment, which forms the content of JonnyBoy12's post. The ICSTIS statement makes it clear that it has no substance.

Chris

[R1Geezer]

Been going around for a a few years now. As Chris says, complete bow Locks

[pinkkitty]

Tigger - there's a website called "whocallsme.com" where you can put in a phone number and it'll tell you where the call came from, if it knows.

Put that number in and the forum is littered with people saying they get a recorded message saying they've won a carribean cruise or a holiday to florida & you have to press "9" for further details, at which point you get transferred to an American service. No-one seems to know who these people are but there have been numerous complaints to OFCOM. It's possibly a cloned mobile number.

[BertiWooster]

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