Beware of a Christmas scam delivery card from "PDS"

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El Loro

Christmas is fast approaching, 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).

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.or...postal-delivery-scam

Please be aware that the premium rate number may change but nevertheless please do not call any number stated on a card from PDS.
Can you please make all your family, friends and neighbours aware of the above.

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Former Member

What a scam!

Thanks El Loro

11/23/146:50 AM

Yogi19Member 10 years

Thank you, El.

I have C&P'd your post into an email to warn my mum and dad.

11/23/147:15 AM

cologne 1Member Memoriam

Thanks EL.

11/23/148:06 AM

AimeeMember

Thanks, will pass it on

11/23/148:44 AM

Garage JoeMember

You may want to check this one out on Snope!

11/23/1410:41 AM

El LoroMember VIP10 yearsModerator

Originally Posted by Garage Joe:

You may want to check this one out on Snope!

GJ, you may be right as Royal Mail does say that the alert that I posted about re PDS was an old alert going back to 2005 and that the phone number shown was closed down.

http://www.royalmail.com/perso...ing-to-be-royal-mail

But I took my posting from the Police and Crime Commissioner for Warwickshire website which they posted it 4 days ago.

http://www.warwickshire-pcc.go...hristmas-scam-alert/

So it's still better to warn people about this even so.

11/23/1411:08 AM

El LoroMember VIP10 yearsModerator

There's one way in which we can find out if the number has been cut off or not, but I'm not going to try

11/23/1411:13 AM

KayteeMember 10 years

I have warned all my contacts

11/23/1411:20 AM

jacksonbMember

It's a hoax, not a scam at all.

11/23/1411:23 AM

jacksonbMember

http://www.actionfraud.police....livery-service-nov12

11/23/1411:26 AM

ClumsycatMember

I have had people call me saying my pc was experiencing issues, I replied `I`ll say it is, its in pieces at the bottom of my stairs` dodgepots

11/25/143:21 AM

Former Member

Originally Posted by Clumsycat:

I have had people call me saying my pc was experiencing issues, I replied `I`ll say it is, its in pieces at the bottom of my stairs` dodgepots

brill

11/25/1410:08 AM

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