I have just received an e-mail from my daughter with this message:-

Royal Mail postal scam!

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 02072396655 or ICSTIS
(the premium rate service regulator) at www.icstis.org.uk
> or your local trading standards office.
This is a genuine scam and is under investigation by ICSTIS.

You have been forewarned!
kim

Thanks for that Kayak, I have just received confirmation of that with further info that an attempt is being made to renew the scam but with a different Tel. number. Hopefully the bastards will be discovered before any harm is done,
kim