Santander impersonation text scam resurfaces with urgent warning issues to Britons | Personal Finance | Finance

The scammer will use the information they received from the fake text scam to try and reassure the victim they are in fact the bank. They will provide things such as account numbers, account emails, and maybe password characters in order to do this.

When Which? reported the scam to Santander earlier this year, the bank said people should “always treat links in a text message with “extreme caution” especially when someone is asking for personal information.

It said: “Don’t be fooled into thinking you’re being contacted by your bank, the NHS, or the police, just because the text message crops up in a stream of previous messages from the organisation or based on the Caller ID.

“Criminals can still unfortunately spoof numbers to deceive people into thinking they’re being contacted by a legitimate organisation.”