Have been made aware of this very clever scam, anyone could get caught as it is very plausible, hope no one is having an "OMG" moment now!
Postal Scam:
Can you circulate this around especially as Xmas 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 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.
For more information, see the Crime Stoppers website:
http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/crime-prevention/helping-prevent-crime/scams/postal-delivery-scam
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Worry not
This was closed down in 2005, so no need to fret or forward further, and it was only ever £15, not £315
http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/News-And-Events/News/2010/11/Postal-scam-...
Quite so.
If the OP were to follow the link to crimestoppers that is contained in his post, it explicitly says that it is a hoax
With kind regards
Clint Westwood
similar theme
A friend of mine funded his way through university (20 years ago) by setting up a premium rate number and ringing round country hotels saying that he wanted to take his girlfriend away for a romantic weekend and could they fax him some info about the hotel. Of course each fax cost the hotel in question about £10 and my friend cleared a few grand a week for three years... he later went on to become a professional gambler, so I suppose this was just the very start of his unusual career...
Clint ..
... don't shoot the messenger!
Interesting concept though, a hoax hoax, hmmm - double negative so must be a real one!
(you don't really expect me to read and research what I post do you :o) )
Once they are this old
... don't shoot the messenger!
Interesting concept though, a hoax hoax, hmmm - double negative so must be a real one!
(you don't really expect me to read and research what I post do you :o) )
their only real payload is clogging peoples in boxes as others forward it to their entire address book.
Whenever I receive anything like this the first thing I do is select a word or phrase from the email likely to be exclusive and copy/paste that + hoax into Google and see what it returns - in this case PDS hoax returns 294k results the first two of which are from Hoax-Slayer.com