Scam!!! Parcel Delivery Service

Rambo_Sheep

Not sure if this has been reported elsewhere... but... I received this info in an email today, not sure if it is just Leicester based or maybe a bit more wide-spread?

Please see below an important message from The Counter Fraud Team. If you have any queries or concerns regarding this please contact Fiona Singer, Local Counter Fraud Specialist, on 0116 295 3167.

Postal Scam - confirmed by Royal Mail

The Trading Standards Office is 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 http://www.icstis.org.uk
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Just thought I should share it before anyone falls for it!

Freddie_Snowbits

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1242607&highlight=PDS

Brilliant, I await for the ELF Gaming one to come around agian. The lights will fail at Midnight in the year 2000 and the nice one from the Nigerian offering me millions

(And it is less than 6 weeks till the man in the Green Suit, sponsored by a Drinks company rams himself down a chimney.)

trisontana

There is no such place as the "Trading Standards Office". ICSTIS changed its name to Phonepayplus over a year ago and you could never be charged £15 just by dialing that number.

9 October 2008
A STATEMENT FROM PHONEPAYPLUS ABOUT THE CURRENT ‘POSTAL SCAM' CHAIN EMAIL

PhonepayPlus, the phone-paid services regulator, is aware that a chain e-mail about an alleged postal scam is being circulated on the internet. The email refers to the Royal Mail, Trading Standards and ICSTIS (PhonepayPlus' former name).

PhonepayPlus appreciates that recipients of the email may want to find out more information about the alleged scam and has therefore issued the following statement:
The chain email refers to a service that was shut down by us in December 2005.
We subsequently fined the company that was operating the service, Studio Telecom (based in Belize), £10,000.
The service is NO LONGER running and has NOT been running since December 2005.
You do NOT need to contact us, or the Royal Mail, about this service as it was stopped almost three years ago.
If you receive a copy of the email warning you about the alleged scam, please do NOT forward it to others. Instead, please forward this statement from PhonepayPlus.
Please go to https://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/pdfs_news/ConsumerGuide.pdf for useful information about how to recognise phone-paid services and understand what they cost, and some simple tips to help you enjoy using services with confidence.
For more detailed information about our work, please visit
https://www.phonepayplus.org.uk.

And to Quote the Hoax-Slayer website :-

A real problem with emailed warning such as this is that they often continue to circulate for months or even years after the described threat has disappeared. They also tend to mutate as they travel, further diffusing the truth and relevance of the information they contain.

Before forwarding scam warnings, recipients should always check that the warning is genuine and current. False or outdated warning emails such as this one do nothing more than add to the clutter in our already junk-ridden inboxes and spread misinformation.

BFG_2

Can't people do a search on this forum before posting???

Or at least check out snopes.com

skylight

My local council actually printed this "scam" in the local newsletter it sends to every household each month. Without checking! At least they had the decency to reply to my complaint about it.

I was cross and complained mainly because I felt it was detracting, especially the older members of the town, from real scams that are out there - and anyone with any common sense (okay, therein is the downfall to my plan in this town!) would have either checked it, or knew that the components of the "scam" made it false anyway, thus making the council look tits. Okay - look bigger tits!

wantmemoney

Who was responsible for circulating this email?. What did it achieve?
http://www.thamenews.net/readmore.asp?Content_ID=3853

While the press were reporting on this false warning the real seasonal parcel scam went almost unreported
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/Mobile-users-stung-by-10.4686847.jp

MSE Wendy did
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1264083

here's the info I found:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1278001

many people are receiving text messages

Text message - "URGENT! A large parcel is awaiting delivery, please call +43820****** [or +2322227****] for delivery tomorrow. From International Parcel Deliveries"

here is just one of many whocallsme reports.
http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/43820990914

This years scam was far bigger than the 2005 PDS scam but went largely unreported. Why?

trisontana

Even though that report in the Peterborough paper correctly stated that the PDS scam had been closed down in 2005, they still manged to get in that falsehood about being charged £15 as soon as you ring that number.

espresso

Rambo_Sheep wrote: »

Not sure if this has been reported elsewhere... but................

Lame excuse often given by lazy stupid people!

Just thought I should share it before anyone falls for it!

You are the only one who fell for this crap!

:rolleyes: