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Posted 10 April 2006
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Hi all

This has been sent to me by a friend and the scam is real!!!


If you receive a card through your door from a company call PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) saying that they have a parcel awaiting delivery
instructions and can you contact them on 0906 6611911

DO NOT CALL the 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 ICTIS at
Or your local trading standards office.

This is a genuine scam.

ICTIS have the following information about this number.

This is a card posted through your letter box from PDS Parcel Delivery
suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and to call the premium rate number in question. This service costs £15.00 plus £1.50 per minute.

This service is under investigation by ICSTIS.
Please be aware of this scam and forward this information to as many as possible.

Should you receive a card from this company please follow the above instructions

Hope this helps 

Regards Rob.

Crawley Carpet Cleaning  Carpet Cleaning Crawley

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Posted 10 April 2006


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Thanks for that.
 
People are naturally suspicious of email scams nowadays but I suspect that something low tech like this would have a good chance of succeeding.
 
If the card looked genuine I would have probably fallen for it so thanks again.
 
Regards
 


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I thought the same thing myself but its such a simple thing i think most people might fall for it.

Regards Rob.

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