Your card has been blocked: be careful with this fake sms from Santander bank

Dozens of users have reported on Twitter having received an SMS notifying the blocking of an alleged credit or debit card from Banco Santander. Apparently, the message in question warns of a phishing attempt and attaches a link to a supposed page of the bank to review the charge on the account. Far from being a real SMS, everything indicates that it is an attempted telephone scam. In fact, the linked page has no relationship whatsoever with the Spanish bank, so we can confirm that it is a new method of phishing or identity theft.

Be careful with this SMS from Banco Santander, it is false

So is. Crowds of people have reported on various social networks the receipt of a text message warning of an alleged unauthorized charge on a Banco Santander card. The most curious thing of all is that the SMS is being disseminated even to users who are not clients of the entity, so it is likely that it is a broadcast system based on a random telephone book.

If we talk about the content of the text message, the SMS in question reads the following:

Once we click on the link, the message takes us to a web page that perfectly simulates the visual aspect of the Banco Santander website. What hides behind this supposed authentic website is a form that sends the data and identification (username or ID and password) of the victims to the robbers. After seizing these, they make unauthorized charges on our behalf.

I have received unauthorized charges on my Banco Santander account, what can I do?

In the event of receiving any type of unrecognized charge in our bank, the first thing we will have to do is contact the Banco Santander customer service. We can do it through 915 123 123 (national call price), a telephone number that is operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. To verify our identity, the operator will most likely ask us for some banking or personal information.

The next step that we will have to follow is based on changing the password for accessing Banco Santander's online banking. We can do it through the application or through the banking portal.

How to block fraudulent SMS on our mobile phone

To block an SMS on Android and iOS we will have to resort to the system's own options. In general, it is enough to access the Messages application and then select the message whose sender we want to block. Within the message we will click on Options or on the three points in the upper right bar to see the details of the text message.

Finally we will click on Block and mark as spam to veto the messages of the selected sender. In any ca

List of suspicious SMS identified by tuexpertomovil.com

• 603828305
• 900649474
• 900820848
• 900820123
• 900100247
• 900900078
• 610928472