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janusdesign

Cymro74 said:

2nd part of email

Al Rayan would be paying 2.81% now, Cynergy would be 2.75% but I don't think you can open an account - so assume the scammers are using an old email as a template and haven't updated the rates... might be worth letting the real Aldermore know about the site and they may be able to get it taken down.

Cymro74

All the other links go to Savings Champion and clicking on the links then take you to the banks websites although as said above the Al Rayan rate is higher than on the email. Has anyone had the same email as I had? It seems that the only direct link on the email is to aldermorebonds which looks like the aldermore bank website but it does seem too good to be true.

Ozzig

Cymro74 said:

All the other links go to Savings Champion and clicking on the links then take you to the banks websites although as said above the Al Rayan rate is higher than on the email. Has anyone had the same email as I had? It seems that the only direct link on the email is to aldermorebonds which looks like the aldermore bank website but it does seem too good to be true.

As janusdesign said, let Aldermore know and at the same time check if it is real.

Cymro74

The Savings Champion email came from anne_sue@savingschampion.online which is different to the usual Savings Champion email at info@savingschampion.co.uk

ColdIron

Cymro74 said:

It seems that the only direct link on the email is to aldermorebonds which looks like the aldermore bank

But it isn't the legitimate Aldermore Bank Plc website (https://www.aldermore.co.uk/)

They have just stuffed 'bonds' on the end of the name, a common ploy

t1redmonkey

@Cymro74

This just seems like a straight up scam, sorry to break it to you.  In the future, you should probably come on here and ask before signing up for something like that.  Even though you haven't funded it, you've still handed over your personal details to some people that are very likely scammers, and so may continue to target you further now you've fallen for it once.

refluxer

Cymro74 said:

The Savings Champion email came from anne_sue@savingschampion.online which is different to the usual Savings Champion email at info@savingschampion.co.uk

The savingschampion.online website was registered on 25th Nov 2022 by someone in Riga, Latvia. It is currently 'under construction - come back soon'.

The 'WHOIS' database can be a useful source of information when trying to get to the bottom of potential scams like these :

https://uk.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?checkAvail=1&tmskey=&domain=savingschampion.online

Obviously, you must not engage any further with these scammers and be extremely careful about any further unsolicited emails which are likely to come your way now that they've got your details. 

I'm not sure what the consequences could be for giving them your bank details though - was it just the sort code and account number ?

ColdIron

Cymro74 said:

The Savings Champion email came from anne_sue@savingschampion.online which is different to the usual Savings Champion email at info@savingschampion.co.uk

savingschampion.online was created less than a week ago. A certain scam

Cymro74

Thank you all for your comments and advice. Yes it is the data that I have given, bank account sort code/account no , copy of driving license and utility bill plus of course name,date,date if birth and address. I am not usually so gullible but they are clever in copying official websites. I will have to be on my guard for further phishing emails or phone calls. By the way the sort code they gave me to send money would go through wise bank and looking at them made me feel suspicious as they seem to be currency exchangers and sending money all over the world.i am trying to phone Aldermore to give them a heads up but they are not answering quickly.

t1redmonkey

Cymro74 said:

Thank you all for your comments and advice. Yes it is the data that I have given, bank account sort code/account no , copy of driving license and utility bill plus of course name,date,date if birth and address. I am not usually so gullible but they are clever in copying official websites. I will have to be on my guard for further phishing emails or phone calls. By the way the sort code they gave me to send money would go through wise bank and looking at them made me feel suspicious as they seem to be currency exchangers and sending money all over the world.i am trying to phone Aldermore to give them a heads up but they are not answering quickly.

I'm no expert on this but I'd probably consider looking at https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/reporting-fraud-and-cyber-crime in this case, since you've basically opened yourself up to identity theft by giving scammers a form of photo ID (your driving license) and proof of address ID (your utility bill).

Also look at https://www.cifas.org.uk/pr