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Premium Rate Number scam

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lee634
lee634 Posts: 1,030 Forumite
Just received this mail from a from PLEASE ALL BE AWARE

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/>> 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.

Comments

  • This number has now been closed down by icstis -source BBC Wales, link here
  • John_Gray
    John_Gray Posts: 5,843 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    This is a genuine scam.
    I just love this! It makes me wonder what a fake scam would be!

    John

    PS Is anyone old enough to remember adverts for "genuine fake fur coats"?!
  • A bit like the jewellery on the TV shopping channels - "Genuine Zirconite" (or whatever they call it) aka genuine fake diamonds :)
    Jumbo

    "You may have speed, but I have momentum"
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