[Blackmirror]

Forewarning of a UK Parcel 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 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.


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 PhonePayPlus - ICSTIS is re-branding

[Rik]

Why can't they just shut the phone number down if it's a pure fraud??

[Blackmirror]

I wondered that Rik makes sense but then is BT in on it

[Rik]

Well, they make money out of it too so draw your on conclusions.

[Blackmirror]

Bad Bt

[Rik]

Well I didn't actually say they were supporting it directly. But if they don't shut the phone number down then they are supporting it indirectly.

[Blackmirror]

Come on Rik its the UK here

rip us off when ever they can

[evilfantasy]

I think this is one of those off shore scams, you dial the number and it's forwarded around to the actual scammer. I can't remember exactly how it works but they are hard to shut down because the actual phone number isn't tied to anything illegal.

[Albert Lionheart]

I seem to have lost a post!
I said (and in my arrogance I thought it was important that I make a contribution to the thread!) that the only defence against this was common sense and barring all calls to 0900 numbers = and that this has an extra benefit which is that you cannot vote on all these silly competitions on the goggle box.
So there.

[evilfantasy]

I remember when I had my first dial-up connection from AOL. Got a phone bill that had 2 hundred plus dollars in long distance on it. My phone company was cool about it though. They absorbed the charge (one-time-only) and put a 900 number block on the line.