piddy
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| posted on 25/10/07 at 10:15 PM |
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Scm or not???
Anyone know if this is real?
This is not a joke! Its quite a serious Postal Scam, please forward it to as many people as you can and tell any vulnerable people you know, all about
it. 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.
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 25/10/07 at 10:26 PM |
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Just another stupid "email virus", i.e. it spreads itself around by people sending it to everyone in their contacts list. The scam did
however take place some years ago.
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/pds.asp
[Edited on 25/10/07 by MikeRJ]
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nitram38
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| posted on 25/10/07 at 10:27 PM |
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According to http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/numberchecker/DisplayServiceDetails.asp this number was removed in dec 05 as it was a scam.
You can use this free service to check most premium numbers
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McLannahan
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| posted on 25/10/07 at 10:27 PM |
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Used to be a scam but shut down years ago.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/pds-phone-scam.html
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Macbeast
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| posted on 26/10/07 at 01:10 PM |
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I got a note from Haringey Borough about this. Royal Mail confirm this operation was shut down about 2 years ago and they wish people would stop
calling them about it 
(particularly since it was a telephone scam, not a postal)
[Edited on 26/10/07 by Macbeast]
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