Royal Mail scam
16 November 2006, 07:36 PM
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Royal Mail scam
The Trading Standards Office are making people aware of the following scam:
If 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
If 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
16 November 2006, 07:47 PM
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I think the poster meant, alluding to be royal mail, but then we all got that..
it would be bad form for royal mail to actually scam people, we all know they do it anyway what with the stamp increases every 6 months and bloody "we left a card in your letterbox cos we couldnt be arsed to ring the bell" scams and lets charge by size as well as weight....what next?
New charges to be introduced based on
1. it "looks" heavy
2. it "feels" heavy
3. it has something inside charge
4. It is going further than 2 miles
etc
it would be bad form for royal mail to actually scam people, we all know they do it anyway what with the stamp increases every 6 months and bloody "we left a card in your letterbox cos we couldnt be arsed to ring the bell" scams and lets charge by size as well as weight....what next?
New charges to be introduced based on
1. it "looks" heavy
2. it "feels" heavy
3. it has something inside charge
4. It is going further than 2 miles
etc
16 November 2006, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by SwissTony
I think the poster meant, alluding to be royal mail, but then we all got that..
it would be bad form for royal mail to actually scam people, we all know they do it anyway what with the stamp increases every 6 months and bloody "we left a card in your letterbox cos we couldnt be arsed to ring the bell" scams and lets charge by size as well as weight....what next?
New charges to be introduced based on
1. it "looks" heavy2. it "feels" heavy
3. it has something inside charge
4. It is going further than 2 miles
etc
it would be bad form for royal mail to actually scam people, we all know they do it anyway what with the stamp increases every 6 months and bloody "we left a card in your letterbox cos we couldnt be arsed to ring the bell" scams and lets charge by size as well as weight....what next?
New charges to be introduced based on
1. it "looks" heavy2. it "feels" heavy
3. it has something inside charge
4. It is going further than 2 miles
etc
16 November 2006, 07:55 PM
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Had this e-mail so many times, best if people checked things out first.
PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) Premium Rate Scam Warning
Thanks for the heads up all the same
PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) Premium Rate Scam Warning
Thanks for the heads up all the same
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17 November 2006, 01:22 AM
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Originally Posted by SwissTony
it would be bad form for royal mail to actually scam people, we all know they do it anyway what with the stamp increases every 6 months
Jethro of landsend puts his letter in to his local post box.
Posty empties box and puts contents into his van.
Posty drives van to office and the letters are sorted.
They're then placed onto a plane flown more then 1000 miles to John O' Groats.
Here the letter is taken out, sorted and put into another van and driven, 99.3% of the time, to the correct address and delivered by hand within 48hrs.
And they have the cheek to charge a staggering 32p for this????
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