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Default Clever scam

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"Guy King" wrote in message
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The message
from Stuart Noble contains these words:

Given that everyone is expecting a delivery from somewhere these days,
it looks like being a lucrative scam for a while.


Oh, I had one of them a year or two ago. Just sent a scan of it to
Trading Standards and let them deal with it. Also rang ICSTIS to get
them to bar the premium rate number, which apparently they did straight
away.


What's ICSTIS?


Mary



Google is your friend.

It's the premium rate services regulator.

http://www.icstis.org.uk/

Tells you all about 09** phone numbers, which you should avoid like the
plague and only use when desperate.

I confess to doing this when my burglar alarm went off unprovoked one
December 23...

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