Royal Mail postal scam

[MK Printing]

Though people might want to read this

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 ?15 for the phone call.

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 http://www.icstis.org.uk> www.icstis.org.uk


Regards

Matt
www.mkprinting.co.uk 0870 080 1799

[Peter]

http://www.icstis.org.uk/pdfs_news/email.pdf

[Jacques]

I know you mean well but please separate the facts from fiction.

You cannot be charged ?15 upon connection to a phone number, in fact any phone number - it cannot be done. Any email that says this is bullshit.

[MK Printing]

The info is from a news letter I get and I thought people would be interested in reading it.

One of my friends had an issue like this once. A girl knocked on his door and said her car had broken down and could she use the phone to call her mum to pick her up. He of course agreed and showed her to the phone.

When the phone bill came in he had been charge ?60ish for a phone call that lasted just over 1 minute. He reported it to BT who said this is quite common.

I believe that you can charge as much as you like for a premium rate number, I am not quite sure.

Anyway hope this saves a few people some money as I really hate people who scam and steal.

Matt
www.mkprinting.co.uk

[Cenobitez]

I see 10 of these a day...

Well its not possible to get ?15 in one whack but the total cost of the 10 min call maybe ?15...

p.s. If you dont 10 scouse virgins about this message in the next say 90 seconds your going DIE!

[Cenobitez]

I think your friend may need to cut down the whacky baccy and stop phoning the 0906 Dial-a-teen line when high.

Some years ago Lawyers and Doctors was applying pressure for a ?5 a minute line for their advice, so you call them pay ?5 a minute and their bill is paid (i'm looking for the link now), but if you check you will see there is nothing phone call wise thats thats over a few quid, unless you go Data bearer.

Here it is

The most expensive phone call well data call i made was ?10 a minute and that was to an inmarsat duplex line, and i wasnt paying the bill it was with work for a high speed data exchange.

[Leaky]

First ive seen of this, and i work For Royal Mail. I will certainly distribute this. Cheers.

[marcusallen]

Premium lines are controlled byICSTIS and it is very rare that they authorise anything above ?1.50

[andy at handiwork]

If its a phone scam, whats it got to do with Royal Mail?
By passing on such urban myths as this one, all you are doing is the tricksters work for them, and clogging up peoples email inboxes. A little research and scepticism whenever you recieve these tales would not go amiss, however well meant the tip off.

[MK Printing]

The reason why I posted this one was because I got it from a reliable source, a small business news letter. I didn't send it to any via email as I hate chain letters. I thought I would stick it on a couple of message boards instead so people can see the warning with it clogging up people's inboxes.

Matt