Santander weekly balance and transactions alerts

SnowTiger

I receive weekly email alerts from Santander detailing my account balance and the last five transactions.

For some odd reason they've sent me the same alert three times this week: once yesterday and twice today.

I've noticed a couple of interesting things about these alerts.

Firstly, they are sent with a Reply-To address of grupodf@test.com. Admittedly the emails do contain this text:

Please do not reply to this email. It has been sent from an email address that does not accept incoming emails.

However, I'm surprised Santander is potentially directing email to an email address they do not control.

Secondly, some of the alerts contain double transactions. For example:

25 Aug FASTER PAYMENTS RECEIPT REF.NW TO SANTAN £456.00+
25 Aug FASTER PAYMENTS RECEIPT REF.NW TO SANTAN £456.00+

Unfortunately the phantom second deposit didn't make it to my bank account. :rotfl:

innovate

This sounds like fake emails, probably the phishing-type.

Don't click on anything, and report it to Santander.

NB. why do you need emails, why not check your account online?