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Mail Scam in the UK

by Niklas Richardson 12:24 pm Wednesday, 5 April 2006.

I’ve just been sent this and can confirm that this is not a hoax:

If you receive a card through your door from a company called 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.

[ inaccurate information removed ]

If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact:

• Royal Mail Fraud on [ removed by request ]
• or ICTIS at http://www.icstis.org.uk
• or your local trading standards office.

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 £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.

Update: I’ve removed the number as requested.
Update: I’ve was forwarded this by a client who had received this from their IT department.

Comments (2)

2 Comments »

1. 

   I work for Royal Mail Corporate Security.

   Although this appears to be a scam it has nothing to do with Royal Mail. It is a telecommunications scam. Please can you remove the telephone number of [ number removed ] as callers who are curious are disrupting the Helpdesk and could result which could result in very urgent incidents being missed.

   This telephone number is not for pubic use.

   Trading stadards are investigating.

   Can you advise as to where this information originated from.

   Thanks

   [ edited by administrator ]

   Comment by Danny Boles — Friday, 7 April 2006 @ 11:25 am

2. 

   True enough, this is not a hoax for once, but the reported connection charge of £15 is pure scaremongering – its not possible to do this on UK premimum rate numbers, although the £1.50 a minute is true. I think this scam was stopped over christmas according to
   http://www.icstis.org.uk/pdfs_news/email.pdf

   Comment by Bryan — Tuesday, 11 April 2006 @ 10:26 am

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