10689 WARNING - Postal scam...

I know this isn't about Italy, but I thugh it was important and didn't know which other forum to put it on... This forum is, I believe, one of the most popular as far as views go - so here it is!

Picked this up on my small 'home town' UK site this morning. Worth knowing about. Beware! :eeeek:

[QUOTE]- 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). [B]DO NOT call this number[/B], 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 [B]£15[/B] for the phone call.[/QUOTE]

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 [url=http://www.icstis.org.uk]PhonePayPlus - ICSTIS is re-branding[/url]

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 04:11

while this was a real scam (and worth people being aware of in case of copy cats) , it was shut down in 2005. See [url]http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/pdfs_news/PostalScam2007.pdf[/url] for confirmation.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 04:25

As these type of scare mails are common, I usually check with Sophos first as they are on top of these things -> [url=http://www.sophos.com/security/hoaxes/index_chain.html]Sophos describes hoaxes[/url]

Specificially -> [url=http://www.sophos.com/security/hoaxes/parcel_delivery.html]Sophos hoax description: Parcel Delivery Service scam[/url]

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 05:12

[quote=pigro;99478]while this was a real scam (and worth people being aware of in case of copy cats) , it was shut down in 2005. See [url]http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/pdfs_news/PostalScam2007.pdf[/url] for confirmation.[/quote]

Yes, I think you are right pigro....
I cut and pasted the warning, but failed to copy the message that was attached to it - it said:
"I seem to remember something like this doing the rounds a while back, [U]looks like they're at it again[/U]."

Sorry!