Hi I dont know if this is happening in"the Forest" but a friend of mine has just sent me this message
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 £315 for the phone call.

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

Sylvia

Whenever you receive one of these messages it is best to check if it is another Hoax before posting it on. This Chain letter has been circulating since 2005 and has recently re-emerged

Sophus Anti virus list the "Royal Mail scam" as a chian letter and recommends that "If you receive this or a similar message, please do not forward it to your friends and colleagues. Forwarding unsolicited chain letters wastes time and bandwidth"

Trading Standards and ICSTIS (PhonepayPlus' former name) have issued a statement at the following link
http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/output/news/Postal-scam-chain-email-PhonepayPlus-stateme...

We have, today, been told about this scam at work (those of us that got there through the snow) as it appears to be a big problem across the country.

Although your intentions are good, please do not report or discuss spam and hoax messages in this forum as thousands of new spam and hoax messages that are circulated each day and this forum is not the appropriate place to notify people about them.

This forum is for discussing Family History and related topics of the Forest of Dean.