Parcel Scam.

[Austin.J]

This email has just been sent round my work, just thaught you lot should know.

Please be aware of the following scam which has just been introduced in time for Christmas.



This has been confirmed by Royal Mail and The Trading Standards Office are making people aware.



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.

[Jack]

Thats an email from 2005, about a company that did indeed call itself "Parcel Delivery Service" and scam people by making them ring a premium rate number (however, there was no £15 connection charge, as thats not possible to implement). It was shut down in 2005.

Having said that, if you do have any suspicions about mail, contact the Royal Mail Fraud department on 02072 396 655 or ICTIS at http://icstis.org.uk. DO NOT CONTACT THEM ABOUT THE PDS SCAM, as its long been resolved!

http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/pdfs_news/PostalScam2007.pdf

[Dar]

It is not possible to charge you a more than £1.50 per minute on a preminum rate call. What this type of scam does is try to keep you on the phone as long as possible.

The problem with thus type of email is that it does the same job as spam! A good piece of advice for anyone who recieves this type of email the 'warning you about something' email or just an unsolicited email like the one I had this morning :-



Your account was temporarily blocked. Here is an instruction on recovery of your account.
Yours faithfully
Clients Department
Fredric


is to just copy the first line of the email and put in to a google search. Then read the links and every single time you will find out that it's a scam of some sort.

This parcel scam for instance :-



A STATEMENT FROM PHONEPAYPLUS ABOUT THE CURRENT 'POSTAL SCAM' CHAIN EMAIL

PhonepayPlus, the phone-paid services regulator, is aware that a chain e-mail about an alleged postal scam is being circulated on the internet. The email refers to the Royal Mail, Trading
Standards and ICSTIS (PhonepayPlus’ former name).

PhonepayPlus appreciates that recipients of the email may want to find out more information about the alleged scam and has therefore issued the following statement:

The chain email refers to a service that was shut down by us in December 2005.

We subsequently fined the company that was operating the service, Studio Telecom (based in Belize), £10,000.

The service is NO LONGER running and has NOT been running since December 2005.

The email refers to a £15 charge for simply being connected to a recorded message.

This is NOT TRUE - a £15 connection charge does NOT exist. The service in question actually cost £1.50 per minute and lasted six minutes, making a total cost of £9 if callers stayed on the line for the full six minutes.

You do NOT need to contact us, or the Royal Mail, about this service as it was stopped almost two years ago.

If you receive a copy of the email warning you about the alleged scam, please do NOT forward it to others. Instead, please forward this statement from PhonepayPlus.

Please go to www.phonepayplus.org.uk/pdfs_news/ConsumerGuide.pdf for useful information about how to recognise phone-paid services and understand what they cost, and some simple tips to help you enjoy using services with confidence.


For more detailed information about our work, please visit www.phonepayplus.org.uk

[Jack]

Your account was temporarily blocked. Here is an instruction on recovery of your account.
Yours faithfully
Clients Department
Fredric
Thats blatantly a fake email. If it came from an legit IT source, it would contain the words "Reboot machine" lol