bancomer.com

February 19, 2026

What bancomer.com is today (and why it still matters)

If you type bancomer.com into a browser right now, you’ll land on BBVA México’s current website. In practice, bancomer.com works as a legacy entry point that redirects to bbva.mx, which is the bank’s main consumer site.

That behavior makes sense historically. “Bancomer” was a widely used brand name in Mexico for decades, and lots of people still remember it, still type it, and still have old bookmarks, emails, PDFs, or even printed materials that reference it. The bank has kept the domain alive so customers who use the older name don’t end up somewhere random.

The “Bancomer” name vs. BBVA México: what changed

BBVA’s group-wide strategy over the last few years has been to unify branding under “BBVA” across countries that used local brand extensions. In Mexico, that meant moving away from “BBVA Bancomer” in public-facing branding, and eventually consolidating the legal/company naming as well.

Two dates help anchor the shift:

  • April 24, 2019: BBVA announced it would unify its brand and roll out a new logo globally.
  • September 20, 2021: BBVA México reported an official change of its corporate denomination (legal name) with effect from that date, referencing the earlier 2019 brand change communication.

So bancomer.com is basically a leftover of a very real naming era. It’s not “some other site.” It’s part of the continuity plan: old name, same bank, new primary domain.

Domain ownership and infrastructure signals you can sanity-check

If you’re wondering whether bancomer.com is “legit,” the best approach is to look for boring, unsexy infrastructure clues. Those tend to be hard for random scammers to fake consistently.

A public WHOIS lookup shows bancomer.com has been registered since 1995, and it lists Akamai nameservers plus bbvaedge.com nameservers—exactly the kind of setup you’d expect for a major financial brand using enterprise-grade CDN/DNS infrastructure.

Also, the live behavior—redirecting into BBVA México’s ecosystem—is consistent with that story.

One important nuance: WHOIS privacy is common now, so you may not see the registrant name directly. That alone doesn’t mean anything shady; large companies often use privacy or corporate registrars for operational reasons. What matters more is continuity (age), stable DNS patterns, and matching the bank’s official web properties.

How people get tricked using “Bancomer” as bait

Even though bancomer.com itself routes to BBVA México, the word “Bancomer” is still heavily used in scams because it’s familiar. Criminals rely on that familiarity to get quick clicks.

Common patterns:

  1. Look-alike domains
    Stuff like bancomer-mx[.]com, bbva-bancomer[.]support, or misspellings that visually resemble the real thing. They’ll often copy the login screen.

  2. Phishing emails or SMS
    Messages claiming your account is locked, your access expired, or a transfer is pending, with a link to “verify” details. Mexico’s financial consumer protection agency CONDUSEF has published alerts about phishing that impersonates BBVA Bancomer and tries to steal personal or banking access information.

  3. Vishing (phone scams)
    Calls pretending to be the bank, trying to push you into reading codes, approving transactions, or installing something. Even when a news site is the one reporting it, it’s still worth paying attention because the technique is common and persistent.

  4. Ads and fake “help desk” pages
    You search “Bancomer login,” click the top result, and it’s an ad pointing to a fake support site.

Practical checks before you log in or enter any data

This is the part that actually helps in real life. If you’re on bancomer.com (or any link that claims to be BBVA), do these checks in order:

Check the final domain after redirects

  • bancomer.com should land you on bbva.mx pages.
    If you end up on something else (different domain, extra words, weird TLD), stop.

Use the bank’s known entry points
BBVA México maintains official pages for its digital services and online banking access. If you don’t trust a link, navigate from the main BBVA site to the login flow rather than typing credentials into a page you landed on from a message.

Be suspicious of urgency + credential requests
Banks don’t need you to “re-validate” everything through a link in an email to keep your account open. That’s classic phishing framing, and CONDUSEF’s alerts describe that style of message.

Don’t share codes
If a caller or a page asks for one-time codes, token codes, or app approval for something you didn’t initiate, treat it as hostile.

Use BBVA’s anti-fraud guidance when in doubt
BBVA México has a dedicated anti-fraud help area focused on protecting customers in digital environments, including safe behaviors and guidance around scams.

Why keeping bancomer.com active is a normal move

For a major bank, shutting down a legacy domain can create more harm than good:

  • Customers still type it from memory
  • Old invoices, contracts, and onboarding materials may reference it
  • Attackers love abandoned domains (and abandoned customer habits)

So keeping bancomer.com redirecting into the current BBVA México web ecosystem is basically “customer safety and convenience by design.” It reduces the chance someone ends up on a fake “Bancomer” site just because the real one disappeared.

Key takeaways

  • bancomer.com currently redirects to BBVA México’s main site (bbva.mx), acting as a legacy domain for the old Bancomer brand.
  • The Bancomer name was phased out publicly as part of BBVA’s global brand unification, communicated in 2019, with a corporate denomination change effective September 20, 2021.
  • The domain has long registration history (since 1995) and uses enterprise DNS/CDN infrastructure patterns (Akamai, bbvaedge.com).
  • Most risk isn’t bancomer.com itself, it’s look-alike domains, phishing emails/SMS, and phone scams using “Bancomer” as bait.

FAQ

Is bancomer.com an official BBVA domain?

Based on its current behavior (redirecting into BBVA México’s site) and its long-standing registration plus BBVA-linked infrastructure signals, it functions as an official legacy domain that routes to BBVA México’s web presence.

Why does it redirect instead of showing a “Bancomer” website?

Because the public-facing brand has been unified under BBVA, so the bank’s main web property is bbva.mx. Keeping bancomer.com as a redirect helps customers who still use the old name.

What’s the safest way to log in if I’m unsure about a link?

Open a new tab, go directly to BBVA México’s official site (bbva.mx), and navigate to the online banking/login from there. BBVA México also publishes guidance on avoiding fraud in its anti-fraud help resources.

What should I do if I received an email claiming to be “BBVA Bancomer” asking me to verify my account?

Treat it as suspicious. CONDUSEF has warned about phishing messages impersonating BBVA Bancomer to capture personal information for fraud. Don’t click the link; instead contact the bank through official channels and verify independently.