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Steve
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24th Nov 10 at 10:28   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Dear all,

The Trading Standards Office in Birmingham are making people aware of the following scam which we have been asked to alert our staff to as we approach Christmas.

This how the scam works :-

- 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).

-If you call the number and you start to hear a recorded message you will already have been billed £315 for the phone call.


If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 020 7239 6655.

Kind regards ,

Katharine
Jamie Walby
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24th Nov 10 at 10:30   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
could be a double scam..... the 020 7239 6655 number could be directed onto an 0906 number then POW, gotcha.
Steve
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24th Nov 10 at 10:31   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
PWNED
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24th Nov 10 at 10:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Jamie Walby
could be a double scam..... the 020 7239 6655 number could be directed onto an 0906 number then POW, gotcha.


You'd be so pissed
alan-g-w
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24th Nov 10 at 10:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Chain letter mate
G5M
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24th Nov 10 at 10:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
According to snopes this is 5yrs old and still circulating.

It was genuine but it was stopped and the cost was more like £9 (£1.50 a min)

Got the very same email this morning.

[Edited on 24-11-2010 by G5M]
alan-g-w
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24th Nov 10 at 10:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
http://www.sophos.com/security/hoaxes/parcel_delivery.html
alan-g-w
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More spam Steve, tut tut
Steve
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24th Nov 10 at 11:09   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
this was emailed around the whole establishment 1000+ employees

i emailed the sender back to the sophos link they must feel silly now
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i hate these busy bodies who think they are saving the day by forwarding on these emails.

i get the feeling they think they are beating the click mob
alan-g-w
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Lol quality. Would be funny if he got 1000 e-mails back with that link in them
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clique mob anus laptops
3CorsaMeal
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
clique mob anus laptops


i think it was them that sent Luigi over here, as their inside man.
Fro
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24th Nov 10 at 11:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Had this earlier from Admin, sent out to the whole of capita group so 10's of thou employees.

said in there to click the crimewatch link.
but if you go on the link which goes to the crimestoppers website it says it's a hoax
3CorsaMeal
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he was inside the anus
Tom G
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i thought that they could never charge you £315 not unless you stayed on the line for hours!

 
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