Royal Mail postal scam

[Lynne]

Son has just e-mailed this to me, it's come from via Essex Police!


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.

[jont]

And for once it's a genuine scam. More details here:

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

(edit - not a personal dig Lynne, just that 90% of these warnings I see are actually hoaxes)

[Lynne]

And for once it's a genuine scam. More details here:

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

(edit - not a personal dig Lynne, just that 90% of these warnings I see are actually hoaxes)

That's ok Jont, son isn't one to waste his time sending things onto me that aren't genuine!

[billgates e30]

i had one of these through the door last year, fortuantly i was lucky enough to notice it come through the letterbox and noticed it was certainly not a courier that posted it

[SammyTheSnake]

I believe the law has recently changed to limit the cost of premium rate phone calls to something like £2/min max, or maybe the change hasn't come into effect yet?

All you have to do to skip these things is refuse to call 09*** numbers. I never have done and to the best of my knowlege, I've not missed out on anything because of it.

Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny

[mconforti]

I was almost scammed in a over-so-slightly similar way.

I was expecting a replacement credit card when I one day received a courier note through my door. Fair enough as I was expect the CC. I gave them a ring and arranged delivery for next day.

A couple hours later, I received a call, supposedly from my CC supplier. To carry on the call, I had to answer some "security" questions. Two things struck me as strange. Firstly was why I should answer questions when they phoned me. Secondly, the voice on the phone sounded a bit like the one from the courier company. I refused to give any details and said I would phone them back.

The long and short of it is that someone at the sorting office had stolen my credit card and then tried to get the necessary details from me to activate it. Details were passed on to the Police.

[madmoggy]

Heard of another scam a while ago with a missed delivery card in the door. You get a card in the door saying that you missed a delivery, stating that they will redeliver at a certain time and date. Theres a number on the card to ring if this is inconvenient. Obviously people ring saying things like "Im at work that day" then come home to find their house has been burgled.

[Micra Driver]

I haven't had anything like this through the door yet

When it does come through the door though... it'll be bad - my family will be calling the number thinking "ooo must be important".

They're a bit simple really

[AdamW]

Thanks Lynne.