Parcel delivery scam

LULUBELLE_2

Got this e-mail, as people here are continually receiving parcels (I guess!!), it seemed logical to put it here.

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Please pass this on, it might save you some money,
For your information
If you receive a card through your door from a company call PDS (Parcel
Delivery Service) saying that they have a parcel awaiting delivery
instructions and can you contact them on 0906 6611911

DO NOT call the 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 ICTIS at <<<http://www.icstis.org.uk>>&gt;
or your local trading standards office.

This is a genuine scam.

ICTIS have the following information about this number:
This is a card posted through your letter box from PDS Parcel Delivery
suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and to call the premium
rate number in question. This service costs £1.50 per minute.
This service is under investigation by ICSTIS.
Please be aware of this scam and forward this information to as many as possible.
Should you receive a card from this company please follow the above instructions

jenniferpa

Please scope these things out first. There's already a bunch of posts about this "hoax with a grain of truth" on the travel board

carrie483

But none on the ebay board so thank you lulubelle as i dont look at the travel board.

Jenniferpa, lulubelle has done nothing wrong.

LULUBELLE_2

Sorry, Jennifer - I don't use the Travel board and never thought to look there.

jenniferpa

Except for 1) the number's fake, 2) this is a exact copy of an email psted on the snopes site. As I said, this is a hoax with a grain of truth in that, while I'm sure someone will again target people using a premium rate phone number, this specific email has been going the rounds for sometime. If you actually read it, it doesn't even make any sense (£15 as opposed to #1.50 per minute). The reason I object, mildly, to this kind of post is that there are enough real scams out there, without dealing with fake ones. Furthermore, since the next actual scam like this will definitiely not come from this number of this name it engenders a false sense of security.

It was not my intention to have a go a Lulubelle, just point out the problems with post such as this.

Jennifer

Mr_Squiddy

It was a scam. It probably is not now:

http://www.icstis.org.uk/pdfs_news/email.pdf

According to this the max charge for the number is £1.50 per minute - the £15 charge on connection is not true.

It might be worth checking out the veracity of such scam claims before posting them.

soolin

**BG**

I'm closing this thread as this hoax mail has been posted a few times already on other boards and since mails like this are designed to clog up systems by being endlessly circulated lets not help them achieve that.

Soo