To be worried about this text?

[MonkeyDoodles]

I'm with barclays bank but just had a text saying:
SANTAN FRAUD.A new transaction has been attempted on 18/8 at 13.54. If this wasn't you visit this website. Http://access.cancel-transaction.com

Isn't it just

As others have said, it’s a scam

• http and not https in the address


• santan are different to Santander


• the link has no identification or relation to Santander

you can call you bank through official phone numbers or chat if u are worried

OP if you get ANY text or email from your bank your are not expecting or are unsure about ring the number on your debit card.

@saddenedsosaddened who accused the OP of infantile behaviour?

The OP is accused of being stupid

Not infantile

MUCH better 🤣🤭👏👏👏

What's next? A thread with "I have symptoms of a heart attack. Is it really a heart attack?"

That sort of thread is posted quite regularly. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve told people to seek urgent real life medical advice.

@saddenedsosaddened but accurate

Accurate? The OP isnt up to speed on scam texts but you, belittling a stranger with a perfectly reasonable query posted on a site that provides advice and information, call her stupid?! 😂 as I said, comedy gold, I love it 😂 Long live the mumsnet vipers!

@saddenedsosaddened

Not up to speed?

Pull the other one

It's a certain type of person that thinks these clearly scam messages are legitimate

The elderly and or the stupid

It’s a very obvious scam. A bank would never ask you to log into another website to review a transaction. If you have concerns log into your internet banking the usual way or call the number on the back of your card.

Genuine question - where y'all gonna go to vent your sad little life frustrations on unsuspecting strangers when the thread police have driven all the genuine posters away? Surely you're not gonna grow a pair and start speaking to people like that in your real life?
Speaking of a 'certain type of person'...
www.dictionary.com/browse/keyboard-warrior 🤭 I mean, I assume you're not an asshole in reality?

Scam.

Report to the spam text number.

Ring your own bank using the number on the back of your actual bank card for personal reassurance.

Aren't you the perfect one.

OP I don’t think you need to worry as the text does seem like a scam. Looks like it’s trying to imitate Santander’s communication style - but you don’t actually bank with Santander anyway. Also, if you are worried, I’d ring your bank and ask for their advice rather than clicking on the text link (make sure to get your bank’s number from their website or somewhere else safe and authorised).

@Mississipi71

Hardly perfect to possess a fully functional brain that can detect an obvious scam

The OP said it was sophisticated

Lord help when western Union send an email

OP if you get ANY text or email from your bank your are not expecting or are unsure about ring the number on your debit card.

I agree.

They often look very real and so I usually delete the message and then ring my bank through the official number to double check.

Ah now c'mon, you hardly think people with FULLY functioning brains go on like you do surely?! As I said upthread, self-awareness is your friend. :)

As I said ...

@SunnyD44* *
They often look very real and so I usually delete the message and then ring my bank through the official number to double check.

No they don't look real. They look deliberately scammy as they only want to engage with those that will continue to the end. They do not want to waste time and effort on someone clever enough to twig what's going on. Making it an obvious scam is a good way of only engaging the gullible and hard of thinking

How on earth does that text look professional?

OP, please ignore those berating you for double checking.
mots always best to check if you’re not sure.

you can also check if your email or mobile phone has been involved in a data breach by checking here www.haveibeenpwned.com

If it shows you have, just make sure that if you have any other accounts which use the same password as the accounts showing in the breach that you change the password on all of them.

This is because once they have a password for one account, those details get sold on and the scammers will then try it on every other popular account or application out there (this is automated by the way) as they also rely on people using the same password for multiple things.
Just as a precaution

And this is bollocks. They are indiscriminate, sent out in bulk and often are not sophisticated because the person sending it is not sophisticated.
You can buy phishing packages on the dark web for peanuts, literally like buying a product off the shelf, and more times than not the sort like the op has, has been sent out by some teenage hacker with nothing better to do.

Op as others said, it’s a scam and a very common one, I’m not with that bank and I get them, just delete it. And it doesn’t look proffessional. It’s hard for a text to do such a thing,

They really do not want to waste time and resources working on a mark that will figure it out - the poor quality initial text is a good filter. If they fall for that bit they are more likely to be able to be conned all the way to paying out.
While true that some have an extremely limited grasp of english, others run a much more sophisticated operation than you think