Clever scam letter

[Melbourne12]

I've just received a letter purporting to be from Santander, regretfully refusing my application for a personal loan.  It's very well done, with the correct Santander logo in red, and a genuine-looking reference number.

It tells me to contact one of the credit reference agencies that they use, Experian, Equifax, or Call Credit, and helpfully provides telephone numbers for them.  These numbers are nearly but not quite the genuine ones.  The letter warns that a small fee will be chargeable.

So presumably the hope is that I phone one or other of these numbers, give my details including a credit card to pay the "small fee", and they take me for as much as the credit card will bear.

I'd not seen this particular scam before, so I thought I'd pass on the warning ...

[Melbourne12]

[johhnyco15]

thanks for the heads up scams are getting better all the time its a worrying time in which we live

[ancellsfarmer]

Had 3 emails from "HM REVENUE & CUSTOMS UK" from alan-n-white@me**age.us , quoting a reference no I recognise from a building society account held many , many years ago before they sold out and gave free shares, could be 20 years ago. Needless to say, these were deleted unanswered.
I only wish the real HMRC would reply to written correspondence!!

The perpetrators of this ,and every such scam, should be boiled in oil if detained, or a mega-voltage sent to their server. We have the force.

[BarriedaleNick]

There seems to be a bit of a resurgence in snail mail scams.  My wife and I both got letters from "Barclays" about our dormant account which had recently been credited with a few hundred quid!  Call the number etc.  As it happens we do an old Barclays account we don't use so for about 2 seconds I thought we had made an mistake and left some money in it. 

[lottie lou]

Oh heck.  Did yours say that you a few hundred in your dormant account and that the bank would give it to charity if they didn.t hear from you?

[BarriedaleNick]

Oh heck.  Did yours say that you a few hundred in your dormant account and that the bank would give it to charity if they didn.t hear from you?

Something like that but we chucked it pronto..