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Santander--FSCS Reduction Options

daveoc22 · 2015-09-13 09:34:28

I've just received an email from Santander telling me about the reduction in protection to £75000 from January 1st and letting me know what my options are. I have been expecting this as I understood that each Bank was making it's own arrangements to deal with the problem of customers with balances over the new limit. I've…

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Eco_Miser Posts: 5,038 Forumite

15 September 2015 at 2:46PM

daveoc22 wrote: »

Yes it was an email I received a few days back, sent on September 12th.

It was personally addressed to me, so I don't think it was a general mailout.

ANY email from your bank(s) should be personally addressed to you. Any that isn't is much more likely to be from a scammer.

A bank's mailing software is quite capable of sending an email to each and every customer, identical except for the identification details.

Eco Miser
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