The van will be in Piccadilly Gardens from 12pm - 3pm on Thursday 5 October.
Thanks to Santander you can snag yourself a free fish and chips for lunch on Thursday and all you need to do is show staff a scam text message or email.
While this might sound extremely shady and borderline illegal it is almost the complete opposite. Banking company Santander want to help educate the UK about fraud using the nation's favourite dish.
The scheme is called 'Phish and Chips' and Santander are bringing it to Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens on Thursday October 5.
It will be a unique food van that accepts phishing emails and smishing (sms phishing) tests as payment for fish and chips, following research revealing a staggering 86% of Brits regularly receive these scams.
To get yourself a meal you simply present staff in the van with a scam phishing email or smishing text in exchange for a portion of fish and chips, along with a side of advice on avoiding the tricks criminals use in their attempts to steal people’s money and identities.
All comments (34)
Derek_Duval
7y 24d#1
Must be at least 99% of the population eligible! Heat
ILikeUsingGifsToComment
7y 24d#2
splender
7y 24d#3
How extremely unique can you get with fish n chips?
Pateo
7y 24d#4
nihir Have you any idea if this promo will be rolled out to other cities?
nihir to Pateo
7y 24d#5
No idea mate. I accidentally bumped into Man.Evening, worth checking local newspapers as I believe it must be running on other locations.
ses6jwg
7y 24d#6
It's a van going around the country to raise awareness of 'phishing'
inb4 'is it halal? is the batter non alcoholic? are the pish and chips cooked in the same oil and grease? etc'
nihir to hass123
7y 24d#11
All I know is it’s “free”. And I guess that’s all it matters...
cleverguy12 to hass123
7y 24d#20
This seems somewhat racist
pingu to cleverguy12
7y 24d#21
it's not, because islam is not a race. people need to get over themselves and stop being so PC.
cleverguy12 to pingu
7y 24d#22
I'm a Muslim but I don't say 'pish' this seems directed to people of Asian descent which makes it racist
cocogumbo to cleverguy12
7y 24d#29
Errr, no. PHISHING is a scamming term which means they are trying to 'fish' for data - Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. See Wiki.
ssc1 to cleverguy12
7y 24d#31
veedubjai
7y 24d#12
And for dessert, Ben & Jerry's Phish Food Ice Cream 500ml for £2.50 from Tesco & Morrisons.
I highly approve of both your dietry choice of food and the pun!
dataload
7y 24d#13
I can't go, that's when I have to meet the King of Uganda at the airport
he's bringing me a lot of money and I only invested 7k
smk77 to dataload
7y 24d#18
You've been scammed. He didn't ask me for anything other than my bank details!
dataload to smk77
7y 24d#19
but he told me he loved me
Master_Yoda to dataload
7y 24d#25
Hi - it's ok. I will reschedule and meet you an hour later - same place as before. Please bring the phish and chips with you.
dataload to Master_Yoda
7y 24d#30
I can't do that, an hour later a Nigerian Princess arrives with my inheritance
giltbrook
7y 24d#14
If you don't think you have any spam emails, and are using gmail, log in to the gmail servers on the following link and click the spam folder, you will almost certainly find a few there. Gmail log in
Also, From the Manchester Evening News website:-
If, for the first time in your life, you are angry you have no spam emails or text messages fear not, you can take a short quiz to identify a scam email or text.
The van will be in Piccadilly Gardens from 12pm - 3pm on Thursday 5 October. Each person targeted received an average of 16 fraudulent emails, texts or calls last year, this means up to 600 million phishing, smishing and vishing attempts potentially took place nationally in the last 12 months.
TehJumpingJawa
7y 24d#15
16 fraudulent emails *a year*?!
I receive more than that every day :thinking:
duncanb1973
7y 24d#16
"Banking company Santander want to help educate the UK about fraud using the nation's favourite dish."
No they want publicity, customers and profit. If there was nothing in it for them they would not do it.
Don't kid yourself this is anything more
TheUrbis to duncanb1973
7y 24d#17
Who cares? Free fish!
marty-401
7y 24d#23
Ah, they missed a trick.....it should have been free SPAM fitters and chips!
Kidmonkey to marty-401
7y 24d#26
SPAM fitters? What are they fitting the SPAM to? Is it something tasty?
chemeng
7y 24d#24
I wonder what kind of tax cut is Santander getting for that
RadioGuy
7y 24d#28
If anyone is in need of a Spam email, feel free to use this Santander one I received last month...
RichHuish
7y 24d#32
Now i want fish and chips but cant have them free
davidridge1
7y 24d#33
Can I have Spam fritters instead?
NotoriousC
7y 24d#34
Will my friends the Nigerian Prince and john Andrews from the ìnternal revenue service also get free food?
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The van will be in Piccadilly Gardens from 12pm - 3pm on Thursday 5 October.
Thanks to Santander you can snag yourself a free fish and chips for lunch on Thursday and all you need to do is show staff a scam text message or email.
While this might sound extremely shady and borderline illegal it is almost the complete opposite. Banking company Santander want to help educate the UK about fraud using the nation's favourite dish.
The scheme is called 'Phish and Chips' and Santander are bringing it to Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens on Thursday October 5.
It will be a unique food van that accepts phishing emails and smishing (sms phishing) tests as payment for fish and chips, following research revealing a staggering 86% of Brits regularly receive these scams.
To get yourself a meal you simply present staff in the van with a scam phishing email or smishing text in exchange for a portion of fish and chips, along with a side of advice on avoiding the tricks criminals use in their attempts to steal people’s money and identities.
All comments (34)
Have you any idea if this promo will be rolled out to other cities?
Anyone have a website link etc? :thinking:
mysupermarket.co.uk/tes…tml
he's bringing me a lot of money and I only invested 7k
Also, From the Manchester Evening News website:-
If, for the first time in your life, you are angry you have no spam emails or text messages fear not, you can take a short quiz to identify a scam email or text.
The van will be in Piccadilly Gardens from 12pm - 3pm on Thursday 5 October.
Each person targeted received an average of 16 fraudulent emails, texts or calls last year, this means up to 600 million phishing, smishing and vishing attempts potentially took place nationally in the last 12 months.
I receive more than that every day :thinking:
No they want publicity, customers and profit. If there was nothing in it for them they would not do it.
Don't kid yourself this is anything more