Scam warning
Apparently, the Trading Standards Office are involved in the investigation of a premium rate phone scam.
It works like this. 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 this 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 0207 239 6655 or ICSTIS (the premium rate service regulator) at http://www.icstis.org.uk or your local trading standards office.
Public Service Blogging at its best.
You would have thought the 09 part of the number would be a giveaway
Thats rubbish! Not the premium rate line but the £15. Max you can charge in the UK (and its a UK number no matter where the company is based) is £1.50/minute, so if youre on the call for 10 minutes then yes, but not straight away.
You may find this link of some use in respect of this matter:
Icstis comments on PDS
Aaaah. We got this through our internal email to the whole service as well as being on our “intelligence” briefing.
What a load of bollocks. I appreciate people meaning well but it makes you wonder if any of the information you’re sent is checked in ANY way. I mean is it niaeve of me to think our INTELLIGENCE team might be a little less gullible?
Its not hard, type “PDS scam” into google and look what happens!
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/pds-phone-scam.html
£15 connection charge is IMPOSSIBLE.
bah, humbug 🙂