smithaldo Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Can you circulate this around especially as Christmas 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 0306 6611911 (a premium rate number). DO NOT call this number, as this is a mail scan 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 or your local trading standards office. This is a genuine scan and is under investigation by ICSTIS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnA Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Did you really call a number starting with 0306, or are you just spreading around another repost of an urban myth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 03 numbers are geographical numbers, ie you pay a flat rate for them, they aren't premium rate numbers, so this is just an urban myth. The flat rate you pay is equivilant to an 02 or an 01 number... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoboblio Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 http://www.icstis.org.uk don't list 0306 as a premium rate number - and as Jake pointed out in the earlier thread it's impossible to charge £15 for a connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merckx Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 I can imagine it would be easy to fall this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Hoax, snopes to the rescue! http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/pds.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnA Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Exactly, the whole idea is to propagate a fake warning, and people fall for it. They don't even bother to quote a proper premium-rate number FFS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithaldo Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 Was only copied and pasted from another site. Apologies if this is all a load of crap then.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Was only copied and pasted from another site. Apologies if this is all a load of crap then.. Don't worry about it, I used to get police sergeants and inspectors forwarding these type of things on to me to distribute round to everyone... You'd think they'd be better at investigating these things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 It has been a scam in the past though - if you ever get a card like that first off read the small print (which will usually have the cost of the call on, even if it's £2 per minute!!), then otherwise try this form: http://www.icstis.org.uk/consumers/ncd/default.asp Which should tell you what the number is for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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