Parcel Scam

SailorSam

I've had an email this morning from Knowsley Council / Merseyside Police to warn of a scam. Cards are being dropped through letterboxes to say you have missed a delivery and to phone 0906 661 911, this is based in Belize and if you call you'll only get a recording but as soon as it starts you'll already be charged £315. No doubt other parts of the country will be hit.

geordieracer

Another hoax scam.. Cant believe this is still going 3 years after its inception. And people still falling for it. Including a council.

triticale

geordieracer wrote: »

Another hoax scam.. Cant believe this is still going 3 years after its inception. And people still falling for it. Including a council.

Indeed.
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/pds.asp

It's actually naive employees rather than 'the council' or 'the police'.

Some spaz spammed it round my work this week. :mad:

To make it worse, this current version has a 3 added - you will see the snopes version shows it saying 'you will already be charged £15' and the new one bumps it up to £315!! :rotfl:

Apples2

People STILL believe this old tripe???

If you don't ring the number, 5 cats will die.

trisontana

You refer them to the statement put out last year by PhonePayPlus:-

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.

• The email refers to a £15 charge for simply being connected to a recorded message.

This is NOT TRUE – a £15 connection charge does NOT exist. The service in question actually cost £1.50 per minute and lasted six minutes, making a total cost of £9 if callers stayed on the line for the full six minutes.

• You do NOT need to contact us, or the Royal Mail, about this service as it was stopped almost two 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 http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/pdfs_...sumerGuide.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.

redpete

SailorSam wrote: »

I've had an email this morning from Knowsley Council / Merseyside Police to warn of a scam.

I hope after reading the above you've replied to them saying that it's nonsense.

bigblackdog

royal mail are apparently contacting there business customers regarding this , i recieved a 'warning' yesterday , i will see if i can get the email forwarded for your perusal

trisontana

bigblackdog wrote: »

royal mail are apparently contacting there business customers regarding this , i recieved a 'warning' yesterday , i will see if i can get the email forwarded for your perusal

Are they warning about the alleged "scam" or about this chain-email?