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kathryn
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 Posted - 2007/10/22 : 12:05:02
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 £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
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recieved this morning via email from my daughters nan this morning from her place of work 
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__CMC__
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Posted - 2007/10/22 : 12:32:58
Fair play to them i say!
If your stupid enough to call then your deserve to lose your cash
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whispering
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Posted - 2007/10/22 : 13:01:48
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn:
If you call the number and you start to hear a recorded message you
will
already have been billed £15 for the phone call.
Here the first thing you would hear is "This phone call costs £15".
quote:
Originally posted by __CMC__:
Fair play to them i say!
If your stupid enough to call then your deserve to lose your cash
I take you never use FedEX, UPS etc. At least here the minute it leaves Vantaa FI Airport, its not any of those who deliver the package. Making it extremely hard for you to know if the company is legit ...or does the phone number indicate it as a "scam" (dont know UK numbers)?
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__CMC__
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Posted - 2007/10/22 : 13:29:46
0906 in the UK is a premium number normally costing £1.50 (this to me would be a give away). I have never been asked to phone a premium number for ANYTHING legit!
DHL, city link, TNT, etc all have contact numbers that are charged at normal rate (some have freephone). On the card they would also have the tracking number of the goods, with this it should be possible to arrange a different delivery date on their website............ why can't google find their website (alarm bells should be ringing now)
Next would be due to the fact i had never heard of the company PDS!
I am not a very trusting person especially when money is involved but IMO if you fell for that scam you deserved it and it may do you good. £15 to find out how naive and gullible you are is not such a high price to pay!
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Jax
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Posted - 2007/10/22 : 13:35:39
i suppose the easiest way to know if its a fake or not is to ask yourself if you are expecting a package!
i had a letter through the post about 9 months ago telling me that i had missed the delivery of a state of the art digital camera and i had to call a number to retreive it. They arnt exactly very clever about how they go about it, no delivery notes tell you what the parcel was or how good it is lol
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__CMC__
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Posted - 2007/10/22 : 13:40:49
very good point jax!!
Also it is worth noting if your expecting a package where ever you ordered the goods from should provide tracking numbers, expected delivery date and last but not least it will clrearly state the companies name that has been hired to deliver the goods
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whispering
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Posted - 2007/10/22 : 14:16:24
quote:
Originally posted by __CMC__:
0906 in the UK is a premium number normally costing £1.50 (this to me would be a give away). I have never been asked to phone a premium number for ANYTHING legit!
Yea, though not sure if everyone know its a premium number?
Here some tryed to call to people from a premium number, hoping they would call back to a missed call, which i thought was pretty sneaky. Though didnt take long for the operators to close the numbers.
Anyway i've got an A4 photocopy saying i have a package, and a number i should call. It looked really fishy no website to track it. The minute it goes from FedEx or whatevers office, its "in transit", tracking number only tracks sertain points of the delivery, so after it comes to Finland the next point is "Delivered". FedEx nor UPS has NEVER said which company they use in my area, and its not even always the same one.
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__CMC__
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Posted - 2007/10/22 : 14:29:47
Thats strange!
All UK residents should be aware of 0906 being a premium number!
I live in the UK but have ordered many things for America, although i cant ever remember ever using fedex i know i have had UPS. From them i recieved all the relevant info about tracking id, delively date, etc.
I suposse they must have different procedures in place for different countries but from the information i have say in this thread i would not have called!
Just fun search google for "parcel delivery service" forget about the the sponsered links now count 5 links down, you would have to be stupid IMO to fall for that!
But we all know how the british public never fail to amaze:)
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kathryn
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Posted - 2007/10/22 : 15:53:11
Just thought i would forward it anyways.
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Jax
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Posted - 2007/10/22 : 16:27:31
Definatly worth pointing out so people can be aware that these things do happen
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kathryn
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Posted - 2007/10/22 : 16:55:24
quote:
Originally posted by Jax:
Definatly worth pointing out so people can be aware that these things do happen
 Thanks.
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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2007/10/22 : 17:04:45
Serious 'post'.........i see what you did there!
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Smoogie
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Posted - 2007/10/22 : 17:06:36
I never ring a number that starts with 09! It is cheeky that these people in on the scam are making money from a postal strike 
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redwingz
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Posted - 2007/10/22 : 17:25:01
cheers 4 posting that Kathryn, i live away from home but still get some packages sent to my mums house coz im only at a tempory address and half the time my mum doesnt know when 2 expect a package coz i dont tell her, so she cud easily hav rang the number thinkin it was sumfin 4 me.
i best let her know. cheers
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kathryn
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Posted - 2007/10/22 : 17:44:08
quote:
Originally posted by Hard2Get:
Serious 'post'.........i see what you did there!
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dee_licious
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Posted - 2007/10/22 : 18:22:21
Have i missed something???? *vacant look* :p
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