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mnko | 11:47 Tue 14th Nov 2006 | Home & Garden
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Can you circulate this around especially as Christmas 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 0306 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> www.icstis.org.uk or your local trading standards office. This is a genuine scam and is under investigation by ICSTIS
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This is not a current scam - that particular phone number was switched off earlier this year.

People calling it were charged �1.50 a minute - the �15 was an urban myth. Such a charge is impossible.

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/pds-phone-scam.html
There is a similar scam still doing the rounds and has been reported in the papers.

Better safe than sorry eh mnko, nice of you to warn others
The Post office is doing its own scam. Depending on the size of your Xmas card it could cost 44p to post one.
I just got an email from a businessman I know, with exactly what mnko has put up, was going to post it myself, but whether its currently valid or not, its still a warning that should be taken seriously.

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