The “Santander Bank Deal” email falls into the email scam category. The email falsely claims that users have a chance of getting $42.5 million. This is a very generic attempt to phish users’ personal information and possibly trick users into making payments.
This “Santander Bank Deal” email is just another version of the classic “Nigerian Prince” email, a type of scam that was very common from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s. The Nigerian Prince scam emails asked recipients to help a wealthy individual from Nigeria move large amounts of money from the country and offered half of it as a reward for the assistance. All similar emails that promise users millions of dollars for some help are often referred to as Nigerian Prince scams. These scams are a modern version of the Spanish Prisoner scams that date back to the late 18th century. The way these scams worked back in the day was people were contacted by individuals claiming they were trying to smuggle a wealthy man from prison in Spain. People were asked to send money to bribe guards and were promised great wealth in return for the assistance. Nowadays, these scams want recipients’ money and aim to phish personal information.
The sender of this particular “Santander Bank Deal” email introduces themselves as Angel Santodomingo, the CFO & Executive Director of Santander Bank. Angel Santodomingo is a real person and he is indeed the Chief Financial Officer of Santander Bank. However, he has nothing to do with this scam email. Using a real person’s name is a tactic used by scammers to make the scams seem more credible.
The sender offers the recipient a deal that would reward them 50% of $85 million. Supposedly, this money is legitimate and does not originate from crimes like drugs, money laundering, or terrorism. The email does not go into detail about what the deal is exactly, it merely promises the recipient a lot of money if they agree “to do business” with the sender. Interested recipients are asked to contact the sender via private email angel.santodomingo2024@hotmail.com.
The full “Santander Bank Deal” email scam is below:
Subject: Hello Dear !!
Hello Dear !!
Please are you still using this your email address? My Name is Mr. Angel Santodomingo, the CFO & Executive Director, of Santander Bank UK, Plc, There is a deal worth of the sum of $85,000,000.00.USD.(EIGHTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY). presently in our bank now. I am proposing to Make this transfer to any preferable account of yours, be informed that this transaction is 100% total risk free and trouble free as the fund is legitimate, and does not originate from drug, money laundering, terrorism or any other illegal act.
When we are through with the transaction, for your help and assistance, our sharing rates shall be 50% for me while 50% for you. Kindly reply to me explaining your tension, so that i will feed you with more details, if you are Interested to do business with me, respond to my private email: (angel.santodomingo2024@hotmail.com) for more details. The business is hundred percent pure and genuine.
I await your response.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Angel Santodomingo
CFO & Executive Director
Santander Bank UK Plc,
If users engage with the sender and send a reply, they will be asked to provide their personal information, including full name, home address, phone number, etc. This information is very sought-after by cyber criminals because it allows them to perform more sophisticated and targeted attacks. Successfully phished personal information is often sold on hacker forums.
While personal information is very valuable, money is the main objective of these email scams. Initially, the emails do not mention this but users who engage will eventually be asked to send some amount of money. The sender will claim that problems have arisen with the money transfer and ask the recipient for money to help solve the supposed issue.
These emails are nothing more than a scam. The contents of the email are completely ridiculous. Though at least this email tries to appear credible by using the name of a legitimate person. If someone were to Google him, they would be shown results confirming he’s a real person.
These types of scam emails have been around for decades, and it’s difficult to imagine that users still fall for them. On the other hand, launching this type of email scam campaign does not require a lot of effort or resources so cybercriminals may have them running all the time while doing other malicious activities. The occasional person may also fall for it.
Users who have engaged with cyber criminals and sent their personal information need to be very careful with unsolicited contact (emails, phone calls, etc.) in the future. Unfortunately, if users have transferred money, it will not be possible to get it back. If users have provided their payment card information, they need to immediately contact their banks to cancel the cards.
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