Does anyone recognise this account number format - Santander?

BooJewels

I am acting as Power of Attorney for a Santander customer and have now received a document authorising it all and listing the accounts it covers. I ticked to allow all accounts in case it showed up any I didn't know about - not actually expecting it to.

But it has, there is one more account than I knew about, but the number is in a format that I don't recognise, so I'm wondering what type of account it might be.

It has more digits and a different format than a current or savings account and isn't the credit card account that I already know about.

Obviously I can just ask the account holder, but amnesia with clerical matters is an issue at the moment, so I thought I'd try and play detective a little first, so that I can start looking in the right places. Not to mention being extremely curious.

The number takes the format:
0015 xxxx xxxxxxxxxx (last is 10 digits)

There was an old Abbey savings account that became a Santander savings account, then was consolidated into the one I know about, but I found the paperwork on that and can remember enough of the digits to know it isn't that. It's presumably an active account to bother to allow me access to it. It's not something like a loan or mortgage as there are no regular payments that I haven't already identified.

Anyone recognise the pattern of digits and what kind of account it might be?

Neil_Jones

If you have a sort code you can put it in here and see what it comes back with:
https://www.sortcodes.co.uk/checker.html

Some Alliance & Leicester accounts used to have nine digits, the first digit of the account number was the last number of the sort code IIRC, but when it moved to the 8 digit format that first number was dropped. It may be a case of just dropping the initial two zeroes to "convert" it to 8 digits for modern day banking.

snilloct1957

If you have further information on the account, then try here:-
https://www.mylostaccount.org.uk

It's free and confidential.;)

Zanderman

Not sure why you can't just ask Santander? If the list of accounts is from them.

If it (the list of accounts) is not from them who is the list from?

BooJewels

Thanks for the link Neil - I've tried various combos of the first few digits and none gave rise to recognised sort codes. The other accounts listed do have recognisable 6 digit sorts, this is a different pattern.

I'm wondering about an ISA - looking at what accounts Santander actually do.

YorkshireBoy

According to a quick google search for "Santander" "0015", the first 4 digits seem to denote an investment account, including investment ISA...

https://www.santander.co.uk/csgs/StaticBS?blobcol=urldata&blobheadername1=content-type&blobheadername2=Content-Disposition&blobheadervalue1=application%2Fpdf&blobheadervalue2=inline%3Bfilename%3D717%5C1014%5C310114_MISC1168_SEP13_HF_V1.pdf&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1314014497154&maxage=3600

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BooJewels

Zanderman wrote: »

Not sure why you can't just ask Santander? If the list of accounts is from them.

If it (the list of accounts) is not from them who is the list from?

I can, when I get the telephone and on-line banking stuff from them, but it hasn't come in the post yet (I seem to have got stuff slightly out of order) and won't do before I visit the account holders property tomorrow morning and can look for actual paperwork. The list is from Santander, so it will certainly be with them.

snilloct1957 wrote:

If you have further information on the account, then try here:-
https://www.mylostaccount.org.uk

Thanks for the link and assistance. The site says only to use the service for dormant accounts and where you don't know who it was with. It's active and I know where it is, just not what kind it is - and if there's any value in it.

BooJewels

YorkshireBoy wrote: »

According to a quick google search for "Santander" "0015", the first 4 digits seem to denote an investment account, including investment ISA...

https://www.santander.co.uk/csgs/StaticBS?blobcol=urldata&blobheadername1=content-type&blobheadername2=Content-Disposition&blobheadervalue1=application%2Fpdf&blobheadervalue2=inline%3Bfilename%3D717%5C1014%5C310114_MISC1168_SEP13_HF_V1.pdf&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1314014497154&maxage=3600

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I did a search myself before posting, but didn't find anything other than a lot of telephone numbers starting with 0015, so you did rather better than me.

That certainly looks like it might be the answer, thank you. He's never mentioned any investments or ISAs and I've not seen any paperwork for such, but it looks the most likely culprit and the only type of account really left by a process of elimination, looking at Santander's product range.

badger09

This probably won't help, but I've just dug out a very old spreadsheet containing info about accounts I held many years ago. Sadly, not as detailed as my current versions but...

in 2002 I had an Abbey Safety Plus Growth ISA with a 9 digit account number, and in 2005, an Alliance & Leicester Online Saver with an 11 digit account number


.. doesn't help does it:o