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Hi All

Just want to spread the word on the below... i hope that is ok!

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 and you can check it out on Snopes!


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 http://www.icstis.org.uk/

xx

Hi Sarah,

Thanks for posting that, but it isn't a live scam anymore, was sorted out in 2005.

Check out this:

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

If you scroll down and read it,it tells you all about it.

Doh sorry only just got the e-mail through work! you would have thought they would be more up to date! SORRY!

xx

Far better to post and it not be current, than not to post and it be a real one.

I always check on that site when someone sends me anything, it's quite good for sorting out the genuine ones.

It was a genuine one (some of them are not), but it appears that it was shut down (and a good job too).

Always good to know as even though this one has been stopped I am sure there is a similar scam around the corner.

I am so gulable I would probably ring[:I]

Same here Emma - I'd be so excited that someone had sent me something that I'd be straight on the phone!

I never phone any premium rate numbers (can't anyway as they are blocked on our phone - legacy from when daughter was young - just in case!).

Any numbers like that I check out on www.saynoto0870.com. If I can't find a geographical number, or the name of the company on there, I don't contact them.