GET MONEY BACK FROM ABBEY NATIONAL IN BAKER STREET

Iouri

I have a friend in London who forwarded me this link from John.

I had left money at Abbey National Baker street in London in 1976.

At the time I had my motgage with me to buy a flat which I sold.

I would like my money back

I live in France but I plan to come to London soon.

Can you help me?

Merci de votre retour

Yours sincerely

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Flugelhorn

so you had a savings account with Abbey National in 1976?

Abbey National is now part of Santander so you would need to contact them with the account details 

sammyjammy

Do you mean you had/have an account with them?  How much money?  Do you know the details of the account?  In all likelihood the account has been made dormant.  It was taken over by Santander so contact them with the details you have.  No need to be in the OK- just email them.

https://www.santander.co.uk/personal/support/savings-and-investments/dormant-and-lost-accounts

Neil_Jones

Iouri said:

I have a friend in London who forwarded me this link from John.

I had left money at Abbey National Baker street in London in 1976.

At the time I had my motgage with me to buy a flat which I sold.

I would like my money back

I live in France but I plan to come to London soon.

Can you help me?

Merci de votre retour

Yours sincerely

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https://www.mylostaccount.org.uk/ might be of interest.

Or as above, make contact with Santander in the first instance.

PHK

Not sure why this is in Techie Stuff. 

The legislation around dormant bank accounts has changed a number of times since 1976. Most recently in 2008 and 2022. 

Back in 1976, it was practice for an unused account to be suspended and the funds in it kept for a period of time (which varied depending on the bank/building society) during which the account holder could claim their funds. After that period the account was considered closed and emptied. For an account last used in 1976, it’s almost certain the account was closed decades ago. 

What would happen if you contacted Santander? There have been previous threads on MSE where no records were found of 20 year old accounts and the FOS found in Santander’s favour. 

Nothing to be lost by asking though. 

Rudyson

As the Abbey National was at 221B Baker St, i suggest you call in Sherlock Holmes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/221B_Baker_Street

CliveOfIndia

Perhaps I'm just being cynical/uncharitable, but the OP receives an email from someone in a different country, who's coming here soon, and wants the OP to help him get some money.

Sound very much like a slightly different version of the "An African princess has died, if we can pay the money into your account we'll let you keep $50 million of it".

jameseonline

From the original post it just speaks scam to me but yeah if you are concerned about things contact Santander 

boingy

Well now I have that sax riff in my head.

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (Official Video) (youtube.com)

penners324

Looks like a phishing scam

Nasqueron

boingy said:

Well now I have that sax riff in my head.

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (Official Video) (youtube.com)

The one with Bob Holness on sax?