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    Postal Scam

    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 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 £315 for the phone call.

    If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail
    Fraud on 020 7239 6655.
    You have to loose sight of the shore sometimes to cross new oceans

    I would be a perfectionist, but I dont have the time
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  • #2
    Liza check out what Snopes have to say about the email.

    snopes.com: Parcel Delivery Service Fraud
    Location....East Midlands.

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    • #3
      On the subject of scams, but a more modest one, when you pay for anything with a card (eg supermarket) check the receipt before you move away.
      I have heard a few tales about cashiers who ring up a 'cashback' which the customer has NOT requested, and then if the customer DOES notice, they will claim that the till is faulty, if the customer does NOT notice, they keep the money.....
      Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Hilary B View Post
        On the subject of scams, but a more modest one, when you pay for anything with a card (eg supermarket) check the receipt before you move away.
        I have heard a few tales about cashiers who ring up a 'cashback' which the customer has NOT requested, and then if the customer DOES notice, they will claim that the till is faulty, if the customer does NOT notice, they keep the money.....
        Working for a large supermarket company I cant see how they can do that, we have camera's on us and get searched regulary, especially those that work on tills like me.
        But then there are those who will stoop so low.
        Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
        and ends with backache

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        • #5
          It is a hoax warning folks...
          Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Hilary B View Post
            On the subject of scams, but a more modest one, when you pay for anything with a card (eg supermarket) check the receipt before you move away.
            I have heard a few tales about cashiers who ring up a 'cashback' which the customer has NOT requested, and then if the customer DOES notice, they will claim that the till is faulty, if the customer does NOT notice, they keep the money.....
            Originally posted by jackie j View Post
            Working for a large supermarket company I cant see how they can do that, we have camera's on us and get searched regulary, especially those that work on tills like me.
            But then there are those who will stoop so low.
            I had this one too apparently they give the cash to the next person in the Q who is a friend
            You have to loose sight of the shore sometimes to cross new oceans

            I would be a perfectionist, but I dont have the time

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Jeanied View Post
              It is a hoax warning folks...
              The scam WAS a real one, but it got dealt with some time ago. I wouldn't like to guarantee that there won't be some bright spark ressurect it.....
              Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Hilary B View Post
                The scam WAS a real one, but it got dealt with some time ago. I wouldn't like to guarantee that there won't be some bright spark ressurect it.....
                It was, but it wasn't £315, it was £15 and the company got closed down, as would happen again.
                "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

                Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by womble View Post
                  It was, but it wasn't £315, it was £15 and the company got closed down, as would happen again.
                  I sort of assumed the £315 was a typo that got allowed to persist because it made a good story. the 3 and the £ are on the same key on my keyboard.
                  Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Hilary B View Post
                    I sort of assumed the £315 was a typo that got allowed to persist because it made a good story. the 3 and the £ are on the same key on my keyboard.
                    There has been plenty of scam warnings about huge phone bills that can be run up. As someone who has worked in Telecoms for some time, I've always known it was impossible to do. (Well almost impossible, nothings really impossible, but it takes alot more work than a simple premium rate phone number to ring.)
                    "Orinoco was a fat lazy Womble"

                    Please ignore everything I say, I make it up as I go along, not only do I generally not believe what I write, I never remember it either.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Jeanied View Post
                      It is a hoax warning folks...
                      Wot Jeanie said.
                      Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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