Yet another scam to watch out for

It looks pretty authentic – but as I’m not a Santander customer it was obviously a scam. If you take the time to hover your cursor over the hotlinks they’re usually a dead giveaway.

I did so on “My details and settings” and came up with https://retail.bankingsanťanđēr.com/olb/app/logon/access/?token=lY5tKIj5ahm0&em=Z3JhbnZpbGxlLnNlbGxhcnNAYnRpbnRlcm5ldC5jb20=#/logon.

This evidently isn’t a kosher Santander URL, but clicking on it will take you to a page which looks real.

Do the usual, advise anyone you know who may fall for this – and tell them to junk the message.

No doubt there’ll be more to come.

Stay safe out there.

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