Local Scams - Nov 06

We've been alerted to the following scam by a BRA member. This scam has apparently been confirmed by Royal Mail and is especially relevant as Christmas is fast approaching:

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 0207 2396655 or ICSTIS (the premium rate service regulator) at www.icstis.org.uk, or your local trading standards office.


Another one concerned fake designer suits, also reported by a member, as follows:

A guy pulled up in his car yesterday asking for directions to Heathrow Airport.

He didn't seem to be listening that attentively to my directions, then just as he was driving off he asked me if I liked Armani and Boss suits. He brandished some suits in shiny suit covers with designer names printed on them.

It's definitely a scam and he wants you to think he's Italian and in the fashion business - for some reason needing to lighten his valuable cargo of designers suits before he jets back to Milano!

So if anyone wants a cheap fake suit - he's short, dark, wears glasses and drives a hatchback!! :)