Scam M&S bond?

PawelK

Hi.
Email received looking quite genuine and from register@marksandspencersavings.com
Under the link the following page opens to register your interest. Still looking genuine except the interest rate....😂
https://www.marksandspencerbond.com/

Albermarle

I doubt that 'marksandspencerbond' is a genuine M & S site .
Also M&S would not send unsolicited e mails about financial products .

jimjames

It's a scam. The bond may exist but doesn't have FSCS protection and isn't sold to retail investors with that interest rate.

Website domain registered 15/5/2021

If you are getting emails like that beware that you may be on a scammers list

scooter_

I’ve received this as well. Too good to be true ☹️

DrSyn

Its a scam.
The best 5 year savings bond (covered by FSCS up to £85K) = 1.4%
1. So a 1 year bond = over 5% = Scam!

2. This bond does not come from NS&I, Bank, Building Society or Credit Union.
This means it is an investment, so it will not be covered by the FSCS up to £85K, as they tell you = Scam!

3. The website was created on 15 May 2021.
Scam detector gives this website a rating of only = 3.6 /100
   https://www.scam-detector.com/validator/marksandspencerbond-com-review/

ratechaser

I love how their 'privacy policy' link goes to the SSE website - clearly that was the last scam they were pushing and forgot to update the link with the rest of this (pretty amateur) web page  

Edit: oh yes indeed, and here's the FCA warning about the SSE variant...

https://www.fca.org.uk/news/warnings/southern-electric-bonds-sse-plc-clone-fca-authorised-firms

MDMD

Looks like the EDF bond from last week got shut down so they are trying again with M&S!

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6266283/edf-bond#latest

Edi81

Amateur website considering M&S haven’t used the green colours for some time but the link to the real one is the current black and white

MDMD

This one has now been shut down, it appears.

id311299

Watch out, there is another very similar scam likely to become active soon - marksandspencersavings.com - same fingerprints all over it.

ratechaser

id311299 said:

Watch out, there is another very similar scam likely to become active soon - marksandspencersavings.com - same fingerprints all over it.

Are you just putting the finishing touches to the website then?