hostile takeover Scam?????

vacheron

RacingDriver said:

I think you should stop talking to a scammer for hours

This would have been my giveaway. 

If this was legit, there must be literally millions of Santander shareholders out there. Are a legit company really going to spent "hours" talking to just one of them? It would take them millions of man hours to get round everyone! 

Albermarle

This lady has spent literally hours on the phone explaining all the intracasies and proceedures involved and a vast array of the amount of moines concerned at each point of the transaction, and sent 4 pages of documentation. which seems a great deal of work for a scam of only a few thousand pounds

However a few Thousand Pounds for even 12 hours effort, is nice work if you can get it !

Also no doubt she is under pressure from her Bosses to get results, so might be a bit desperate.

Newark17

Thanks for all your comments,
 just found an article in the Daily Mirror 4 July 2019, exactly the same scam (different company).
Just hope this makes everyone aware of this particular scam and that nobody looses any money to these people. 

wmb194

Newark17 said:

Thanks for all your comments,
 just found an article in the Daily Mirror 4 July 2019, exactly the same scam (different company).
Just hope this makes everyone aware of this particular scam and that nobody looses any money to these people. 

It's been running forever and there have been lots of threads about this. Usually they relate to one of the government privatised or demutualised companies where there were lots of certificated shareholders and their details are easily found on old shareholder registers.

For some reason Scottish Power tends to come up a lot e.g.,

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6421530/scottish-power-takeover-scam/p1