Regular Savings Accounts: The Best Currently Available List!

Eco_Miser

kaMelo I'd agree with you, except that visually inspecting an URL is no longer good enough. See where https://skiptοn.co.uk takes you.

It doesn't exist (yet) but potentially could if a scammer could persuade a registrar to register a domain containing a Greek small letter omicron where a Latin small letter O is expected.

Most browsers will display an altered form in the address bar so visual inspection isn't completely bypassed.

Trouble is, this applies to URLs found through search engines as well as from random people on the internet, so finding that the correct domain is  skipton.co.uk rather than skipton.building.society.co.uk or skipton-building-society.co.uk or skipton-online.co.uk gets to be difficult. Go via the FCA website perhaps?

veryintrigued

schiff said:

typistretired said:

Can’t can’t remember so much activity on here when Yorkshire Building Society launched their Regular Saver at 3.50% and you are allowed to save £500 per month into theirs 

I'm amazed nobody has suggested a separate thread for this à la Virgin. Too late now, though I sympathise with anyone doing a search for something unrelated.

Started on page 335. Let's see how far folks can keep it ticking over!

There are three threads already on this...

kaMelo

Eco_Miser said:

kaMelo I'd agree with you, except that visually inspecting an URL is no longer good enough. See where https://skiptοn.co.uk takes you.

It doesn't exist (yet) but potentially could if a scammer could persuade a registrar to register a domain containing a Greek small letter omicron where a Latin small letter O is expected.

Most browsers will display an altered form in the address bar so visual inspection isn't completely bypassed.

Trouble is, this applies to URLs found through search engines as well as from random people on the internet, so finding that the correct domain is  skipton.co.uk rather than skipton.building.society.co.uk or skipton-building-society.co.uk or skipton-online.co.uk gets to be difficult. Go via the FCA website perhaps?

That's merely a link rather than the actual domain, as always hover over the link and the actual domain in links to will show up as arrowed below.

Make sure you type the domain correctly or use a bookmark that you know is correct, things that seem alien to many now who would rather just search Google and mindlessly click the top result (which inevitably is a paid for advert) rather than looking down the results to find what you're actually looking for.  This is how people get sucked into things

Ultimately a "whois" search on the relevant domain registrar (nominet for co.uk) should reveal a lot, ironically it doesn't reveal much for "skipton.co.uk"  I can only think as it was first registered in 1996, there wasn't a requirement to show things like ownership details back then.
One things for sure, if it's a business domain and the ownership is hidden behind a privacy protection, be very suspicious.

I hear what you're saying about latin characters, the same is true with other character substitution. It's not new, it's evolved and they're getting better at it but it's still avoidable as most things are simply by being alert.

colsten

Please can you take your discussion about links to a different thread. Thanks 

veryintrigued

colsten said:.

Now can we get back to the subject of the thread, which is Regular Savers, not your assessment of my abilities or trustworthiness.

This.

This is exactly why it's a tremendous idea to start a separate thread (singular).

trickydicky14

I have Regular savings bookmarked, and I am getting fed up deleting so many text to my phone.
Think I will un bookmark until things cool down me thinks.

quirkydeptless

I've opened the Skipton account. The rates on my regular savers we're getting so poor I was thinking of winding them down this year and retiring my magic money tree, but he's looking much happier now

Thank You Skipton!

arsenalboy

Monmouthshire Building Society.

I have Reg Sav issue 4 which is maturing in a couple of weeks and have received the maturity letter. It gives a code to use on their web site to bring up maturity options.

I want to take the money out and the online form will only issue a cheque.

If I fill in the maturity form manually, that was received with the letter, and return it in the post it will let me request a FOC bank transfer.

Why are they making a bank transfer more difficult?

typistretired

You have to send a bank statement or payment slip with the form every time a savings account matures surely they could keep a copy on your file 

typistretired

The form says you have to include the bank statement or payment slip with the form so maybe they need to update their form - they have had several proof of bank account from me in the past and have sent previous maturity payments  to my bank account