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LaughingHeart

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If you get a card through your door from 'PDS" [parcel delivery service] Telling you that they could not deliver a parcel and that you should phone to arrange another delivery.....DO NOT PHONE THE NUMBER GIVEN!! It is a scam. It is a high cost premium number: 0906 6611911. As soon as the message on this number starts, you are billed 315 pounds on your phone bill. If you receive such a card, contact the Royal Mail fraud dpt. 020 7239 6655
Please pass this warning on! This warning has come through the Royal Mail and the Trading Standards Office today.
Paol.
 
LaughingHeart said:
If you get a card through your door from 'PDS" [parcel delivery service] Telling you that they could not deliver a parcel and that you should phone to arrange another delivery.....DO NOT PHONE THE NUMBER GIVEN!! It is a scam. It is a high cost premium number: 0906 6611911. As soon as the message on this number starts, you are billed 315 pounds on your phone bill. If you receive such a card, contact the Royal Mail fraud dpt. 020 7239 6655
Please pass this warning on! This warning has come through the Royal Mail and the Trading Standards Office today.
Paol.
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Hello Paol
Well done indeed:D as it happens I am waiting for two laptop batteries to come via royal mail:rolleyes:..I will wait and see--Many thanks for the post
Bye for now
Freddie:)
 
PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) Premium Rate Scam Warning


This postal thingy is popping up all over this Christmas. The link above is just one of a good few to suggest that it is no longer valid although I cannot vouch for it's accuracy. Remember though that there will be an even more devious scam to lighten our pockets to take it's place.


I am a member of another forum whose members are having a real row about it but IMHO..............
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Hmmmm. How did you get the news. Perchance via an email sent out to everyone in 64 successive peoples' address books.

Thought so.

PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) Premium Rate Scam Warning

Postal scam chain email – PhonepayPlus’ statement
17/11/2010

PhonepayPlus, the phone-paid services regulator, is aware that a chain e-mail about an alleged postal scam is being circulated on the internet. The email refers to the Royal Mail, Trading Standards and ICSTIS (PhonepayPlus' former name).

PhonepayPlus appreciates that recipients of the email may want to find out more information about the alleged scam and has therefore issued the following statement:

* The chain email refers to a service (operating on 0906 6611911) that was shut down by PhonepayPlus (then ICSTIS) in December 2005.

* PhonepayPlus subsequently fined the company that was operating the service, Studio Telecom (based in Belize), £10,000.

* The service is NO LONGER running and has NOT been running since December 2005.

* You do NOT need to contact PhonepayPlus, or the Royal Mail, about this service as it was stopped almost four years ago.

* If you receive a copy of the email warning you about the alleged scam, please do NOT forward it to others. Instead, please forward this statement from PhonepayPlus.

* If you receive a delivery card through your letterbox which you do not believe is genuine and which asks you to dial a premium rate number, you can contact PhonepayPlus on 0800 500 212 (Mon-Fri, 8am-6pm) for further guidance.

* Please go to http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/output/FAQ.aspx for useful information about how to recognise phone-paid services and understand what they cost, and some simple tips to help you enjoy using services with confidence.

* For more detailed information about PhonepayPlus’ work, please visit www.phonepayplus.org.uk.

There is also no current warnings about this particular scam on either the Trading Standards website or the Royal Mail website.
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No wonder the internet slows to a crawl so often.
 
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Tony Lee wrote:

"Hmmmm. How did you get the news. Perchance via an email sent out to everyone in 64 successive peoples' address books.
Thought so."

There are 2 sides to a battery, maybe your little world will be a brighter place if you connected to both of them.
Clue - ones called positive. :p
 
PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) Premium Rate Scam Warning

Brief Analysis
Was true, but the scam was shut down in late 2005. Despite claims in the warning, the scam is not reoccurring in 2010.

Example:(Submitted, October 2007)
Subject: Postal Scam To Be Aware Of

This is a genuine scam that Royal Mail have been made aware of
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Can you circulate this around especially as Xmas 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 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 [number removed] or ICSTIS (the premium rate service regulator) at PhonepayPlus : Homepage : PhonepayPlus is the regulator for the phone-paid services industry

Please circulate this to avoid anyone else being ripped off.
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Luckheart said:
Tony Lee wrote:

"Hmmmm. How did you get the news. Perchance via an email sent out to everyone in 64 successive peoples' address books.
Thought so."

There are 2 sides to a battery, maybe your little world will be a brighter place if you connected to both of them.
Clue - ones called positive. :p
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Very clever. Did you think of that one all by yourself or did it come in a chain email titled "Cute sayings for every occasion"?

I do know the internet would be faster and mail boxes a lot less cluttered if people bothered to check before hitting the "send this critical message to my whole address book so mankind will be saved" button. Just takes a few seconds for a Google search on a phrase. Apart from the annoyance factor and the waste of time these false alarms cause (and the possibility that the warning message could in itself be the means to spread www nasties), there is the not insignificant problem that sending a multi-forwarded broadcast email with all names in the "To" heading makes it nice and easy for spammers to harvest a heap of primary email addresses that people would prefer to keep out of circulation.
 
With all due respect, I was a recipient of this message and never a propagator. In my own pathetic incompetent and insensitive way, I attempted to dispel some of the nonsense that is flung about the internet. I will in future wind my sad little neck in and leave the information super highway clear for the use of my elders and or betters.

P.S. I did indeed think of the "cute" saying for myself and considering the time of day it came to me, I think it was quite amusing. Feel free to propagate it at your leisure.:)

Keep on camping.
 
With any of the warnings/scams I get from well meaning friends I first Google a phrase from the scam. In all my years surfing the web I have never yet come across any of these that hadn't been around for a few years. Some of them are created with the sole intent of getting people to pass the message on with the scam not ever existing, they are just created to fill up peoples mailboxes.
When i used to work we were constantly reminded by the IT department never to pass on any of these type of emails & only they would issue any relevant information if required.
 
Kontiki said:
With any of the warnings/scams I get from well meaning friends I first Google a phrase from the scam. In all my years surfing the web I have never yet come across any of these that hadn't been around for a few years. Some of them are created with the sole intent of getting people to pass the message on with the scam not ever existing, they are just created to fill up peoples mailboxes.
When i used to work we were constantly reminded by the IT department never to pass on any of these type of emails & only they would issue any relevant information if required.
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Yes I always check with Snopes or on Google first.

90% are just chain emails designed to clog up forums and emails while the original perpetrator laughs seeing how far they have spread.

The other 10% are true in some way, or most likely a rehash as in this case, of something that WAS true and going around a few years back.

Snopes as usual has a good supply of info on this one:

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/pds.asp
 
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Firefox said:
Yes I always check with Snopes or on Google first.

90% are just chain emails designed to clog up forums and emails while the original perpetrator laughs seeing how far they have spread.

The other 10% are true in some way, or most likely a rehash as in this case, of something that WAS true and going around a few years back.
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True but don't shoot the messenger. Unless you know that they are chain mail then they may seem to be genuine warnings. The OP was trying to be helpful - and he appears to have been vilified by some for it.
 
People are not shooting anyone, at least I wasn't, except the original scammers. Just stating the facts as I see them ;)

If someone posts a warning, then you might expect others to respond with (a) Yeah this I true (b) This is false, or (c) This is partially true, but out of date, and this is where I found out.

I guess if nobody replied with anything, then we might as well close the forum :D
 
Firefox said:
People are not shooting anyone, at least I wasn't, except the original scammers. Just stating the facts as I see them ;)

If someone posts a warning, then you might expect others to respond with (a) Yeah this I true (b) This is false, or (c) This is partially true, but out of date, and this is where I found out.

I guess if nobody replied with anything, then we might as well close the forum :D[/QUOTE

Point of clarification needed - I wasn't accusing you of "shooting the messenger". Your post seemed eminently sensible to me. I was attempting to engage in conversation with you about some of the other postings in which the poor old OP was being treated roughly. I agree entirely with your analysis - a simple "thanks for the info but did you know.....?" would have been appropriate, not biting his head off! Happy travels.
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Actually if we started biting people heads off for spreading misinformation then the 'fake warning' problem would go away.
 
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John H said:
True but don't shoot the messenger. Unless you know that they are chain mail then they may seem to be genuine warnings. The OP was trying to be helpful - and he appears to have been vilified by some for it.
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I would rather be informed a 1,000 time be it true or false than loose money. Thanks to LaughingHeart for the post.

It cost nothing to say thank-you but other comments can hurt, and that is how we loose friends - think about it.

LaughingHeart is a full member so you can PM him if you have any comments !!!!
 
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the dogfather said:
Actually if we started biting people heads off for spreading misinformation then the 'fake warning' problem would go away.
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No it wouldn't (and I am only talking about people who pass on information innocently as in this case) but you would soon find that people would stop talking to you and when a geniune scam came along nobody would bother to let you know. The reverse of the boy who called wolf!
 
i agree with gernsey donkey and john h . we only put a warning out if we think it may be genuine not to fool other members .there are more scams out there than snow flakes up north, and its hard to tell what is real from fake so good on ya laughing hart .
 
There are so many of these around & a quick check on Google or Snopes will tell you if it is genuine or not. I did post a warning about a scam that is doing the rounds at the moment. I know this as my sister was nearly caught out, luckily she phoned me first as although she is in her seventies she isn't stupid or senile. The call went something like this - I am phoning from your ISP & can see that you are having problems with your computer running slow (everybody's computer runs slow once you start using it :rolleyes: or so they think) They said they could see she had her PC on (a 50/50 guess of being right :rolleyes:) as it was it was off & I had spent the day before trying to clean it up for her as she said it was running slooow (which it was) I only marginally improved it. He wanted her to sit by her PC & he would guide her through what to do, this was when she decided to tell them she was too busy & didn't have time to do it. Called me & a quick search showed PC RUNNING SLOW SCAM
 
I'd love to get the phone call about the computer running slow, if I had a bit of time to spare. I'd string them along for ages having fake problems doing the simplest of tasks like opening up a browser window or connecting to the internet!
 
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