A quick heads up for ED members about PDS (Parcel Delivery Service

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Got the following in our offices, just thought I'd do the deed and pass it on X

"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 ?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

[Jah Lush]

Thanks for that. I once fell for a phone scam and ended up with a ?1,800 phone bill. BT were bastards and no help whatsoever and I had to pay the bill. ICSTIS traced the call to a fly-by-night company in Poland. Naturally I am no longer with BT.

[mockney piers]

It's a norwegian blue scam, so no need to worry, but healthy scepticism regards the unfamiliar or suspicious is a sensible way to be.

Wow, ?1800, christ on a plastic dolphin, how the hell did you manage that?!?!

[Jah Lush]

I was on the phone for about eight seconds and hung up once I heard it was some marketing company prize thingy but they clamped the phone and that was the bill I got for the call. Bastards!!!!