BEWARE... POSTAL FRAUD!

It has come to the attention of Royal Mail that fraudsters are posting cards through household letterboxes from a company called PDS (Parcel Delivery Services), claiming that they have attempted to deliver a parcel and recieved no reply.
It also states that the householder need to call 0906 6611911 (A premium rate number)to re-arange delivery.
DO NOT CALL THIS NUMBER, it is a scam originating from Belize.
If you do call this number and hear a recorded message you will already have been charged in execess of £10.00 for the call!!!!

If you recieve such a card please call Royal Mail Security and Investigation Dept. on 0207 239 6655 or contact ICSTIS (The the premium rate call regulator) at http://www.icstis.org.ukwww.icstis.org.uk

hope you didnt find this out the hard way geoff

No Shane, for my sins I work for the Post Office!!

Thanks, will keep my eyes open.

Just so people are aware:
It has come to our attention that a chain e-mail regarding Parcel Delivery Services is being re-circulated. icstis invoked its Emergency Procedure and removed access to this service in December 2005.

From http://www.icstis.org.uk/news/latest_news.asphttp://www.icstis.org.uk/news/latest_news.asp

Along same lines:

You may get a phone call on your mobile phone by some one acting as an engineer, then asking you to press #90 or #09. Dont do this as its a system that allows them use of your sim card, and you get a nice phone bill.

Partly true... From the http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/90Scam.htmlFCC

This scam as now come to my area in Nottingham!!A couple of people on my road and surounding ones have had this

Bex,
If you know them, please ask them to call the Royal Mail investgation dept. on 0207 239 6655 and report the fact.

Thanks,
Geoff.

Its my dad who knows, we had a card posted from the royal mail to say there was a letter they couldnt get through the post box, he was a bit wary cos someone at work told them the scam had come to our area, I will pass this number on to my dad Geoff who can pass it to the relevant person

If it says Royal Mail on the card, singed by the postman, with the address of the local sorting office and a phone number that is a local one to that sorting office, then that card is perfectly OK.
Just look out for a card that looks roughly the same but is from PDS (parcel delivery services) with a phone number starting 0690..... (these numbers are NEVER used by Royal Mail) these ARE SERIOUSLY SUSPECT!!

Ours is real but a number of other peoples isnt

Bex,

Tell yr dad to stop buying things bigger than his post box, then he wont have to worry !!!

:)

It was my mums parcel god only knows what it is :) but yea dads a devil for it as well