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ultimatehandyman
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 Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:36 am Post subject: Postal scam |
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ROYAL MAIL POSTAL SCAM
The following information has been verified by both Royal Mail and Trading
Standards.
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 / telephone 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.
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ultimatehandyman
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This scam is still going on and has resurfaced.
As it is coming close to christmas it is a perfect time to run this scam and so please be aware.
There is also a similar one, where you have to call a mobile number and listen to a recorded message, this also costs about £1 per minute!
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bobbie-dazzler
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Great info UH :grin: will keep that in mind.
The other one is, that someones brings a package to your door, says there is X amount outstanding to pay, for example £5, you hand over the £5, go inside,open it, and the box is empty. 
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Mooncat
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The PDS scam warning is now going the rounds as an email hoax. ICSTIS closed the premium-rate number back in December 2005, and fined the Belize company £10,000.
With all the CCTv cameras now watching us, it should be possible to discover just who comes to our door. |
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Hoovie
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Joined: 27 Jul 2007
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Location: East Devon
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| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| ...With all the CCTv cameras now watching us, it should be possible to discover just who comes to our door. |
and track their whole journey door to door  I read that the UK has something like 25% of the CCTV cameras in the world
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ultimatehandyman
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There are a couple more similar scams where you are left a card and it is a premuim rate number. This should be outlawed 
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