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Postal scam - Ally - 08-10-2018
Postal 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 £315 for the phone call.
If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 020 7239 6655.
For more information, see the Crime Stoppers website:
http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/crime-prevention/helping-prevent-crime/scams/postal-delivery-scam
Postal scam - Lexusboy - 08-10-2018
Wow there will be lots of people phone these numbers..
Why are our telecom giants not doing some thing to stop this link block the number?
Postal scam - DaveEdin - 08-10-2018
This is a scam that was (apparently) stopped a few years ago?
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/pds.asp
Postal scam - parthiban - 08-10-2018
Cheers for the warning, don't normally ring anything with an 0906 number anyway.
Is it possible though to have a phone number that as soon as you ring it bills you £315? How can that exist?
Postal scam - Asi - 08-10-2018
parthiban Cheers for the warning, don't normally ring anything with an 0906 number anyway.
Is it possible though to have a phone number that as soon as you ring it bills you £315? How can that exist?
i was thinking that aswell how can you be billed £315 right away
Postal scam - purplewitch - 08-10-2018
I believe with some of these numbers, whoever sets them up can set an initial minimum call fee and then a price per minute thereafter. This email is well and truly spamming the net, I've had it about twelve times this morning and I do recall seeing it last yeaar too.. still it makes a nice change from the man in deepest China who is going to send me a kazillion yen sometime soon
Postal scam - parthiban - 08-10-2018
purplewitch I believe with some of these numbers, whoever sets them up can set an initial minimum call fee and then a price per minute thereafter. This email is well and truly spamming the net, I've had it about twelve times this morning and I do recall seeing it last yeaar too.. still it makes a nice change from the man in deepest China who is going to send me a kazillion yen sometime soon
And they can set any amount they want? Surely there should be a way that Ofcom can limit that, seems insane as no legitimate business would ever charge £300 for a phone call!
Lol, the Chinese guy sending yen.........they don't even get the currencies right! :lol:
Postal scam - toxo - 08-10-2018
Yeah this is ancient and got knocked on the head years ago - all it does now is serve to spam peoples inboxes with people forwarding it around without checking it out first! Safe to ignore the details, but always be on the lookout for scams like it
Postal scam - purplewitch - 08-10-2018
[COLOR="Indigo"]Yeah I wasn't impressed with the German who wanted to send me Marks a few months ago either !
Yes I think you can set the amount once you have bought the service, it's just a bigger amount version of the same facility we buy ringtones and apps that get charged to our mobile bills .. without the are you sure you want to do this option.
Don't start me on BT ripping us off or letting us get ripped off lol.. I can rant for weeks about them
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Postal scam - purplewitch - 08-10-2018
toxo Yeah this is ancient and got knocked on the head years ago - all it does now is serve to spam peoples inboxes with people forwarding it around without checking it out first! Safe to ignore the details, but always be on the lookout for scams like it
Especially now John has an idea how to pay for his project lol