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bad deals

If Wells Fargo Calls To Offer You An Equity Loan On Your Car... Say No.


Over on the Credit Slips blog, Elizabeth Warren posted an email from a bankruptcy lawyer who was stunned at the horrible deal one of her clients got from Wells Fargo on an equity loan on a car. More »

12:26 PM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By Meg Marco
9,699 views, 77 comments

data breach

Wells Fargo Allows Your Data To Be Breached - Twice

Reader Bryan's Wells Fargo credit/debit card stopped working unexpectedly one day while he was trying to gas up his car. He was confused because he had used the card the night before with no problems. He spoke to a Wells Fargo CSR at a local branch and discovered that the data for 125,000 cards, including his, was "compromised" thus deactivating his card. This had already happened to him once before within the last year and he was not pleased. His letter, inside... More »

9:20 AM on Fri May 2 2008
By Jay Slatkin
3,113 views, 32 comments

Latest by goorsha: On the subject of file backup, sharing and storage ... Online backup is becoming common these days. It is estimated that 70-75% of all PC's will be connected to online backup services with in the next decade. Thousands of online backup companies more »

security

Wells Fargo's Website Wants You To Use Netscape Navigator For Security Reasons

Reader Eric doesn't want to install a defunct browser in order to do his banking, so Wells Fargo's request that he use Netscape Navigator is really rubbing him the wrong way. (Navigator was discontinued in December and is no longer supported by AOL as of March 1, 2008, says Wikipedia.)
Eric writes:

I recently tried to sign up for online access to my Wells Fargo Financial account. I am on a mac and use Firefox or Safari - depending on my mood.
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4:34 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Meg Marco
5,394 views, 58 comments

Latest by ericstoller: Wells Fargo Financial fixed it!!! I just checked it today and it works (on a Mac) in both Firefox and Safari! I had several inbound visits last week from Wells Fargo IP addresses!!! more »

subprime meltdown

Another Ohio Judge Halts A Foreclosure

Another judge in Ohio has stopped a foreclosure because lawyers could not legally prove that Wells Fargo owned the mortgage.

The judge said the foreclosure lawsuit was filed before Wells Fargo owned the mortgage - thus, the suit was premature.
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6:12 PM on Fri Dec 14 2007
By Meg Marco
3,599 views, 17 comments

followups

Kid Get $120 In Wells Fargo Overdrafts Refunded After Rich Dad Calls VP

DM reports that he was able to get Wells Fargo to reverse all his overdrafts... because his dad has a big Wells Fargo account and was able to call up some company Vice President. Ahem. Three cheers for the power of escalating issues outside of the customer service line, we suppose.

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5:23 PM on Wed Sep 26 2007
By Ben Popken
5,202 views, 34 comments

precious

College Student Learns How Overdrafts Work

Forgive me, I'm a bit emotional over this. I'm raging mad and sad and disappointed because today Wells Fargo just lost my business. Yeah, I screwed up in this, but I'm a poor college student, and I thought I fixed it before it was a problem...
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8:20 PM on Wed Sep 19 2007
By Ben Popken
12,534 views, 80 comments

outages

Wells Fargo's Network Goes Down For 24 Hours, Customers Sad, Broke

Some of Wells Fargo's customers experienced an service outage that lasted about 24 hours, according to the Associated Press. Affected customers were unable to get cash or use their debit cards. More »

12:59 PM on Tue Aug 21 2007
By Meg Marco
3,781 views, 25 comments

Big banks are bringing banking to your cellphone so you can easily see how broke you are from anywhere in the world.

4 comments

fringe economy

Maxed Out's Bombshells: 1. Wells Fargo Funds Payday Loan Chains 2. Celebrities Get VIP Credit Report Treatment

While we chided Maxed Out for not discussing consumer self-empowerment, the movie did make two very interesting claims: More »

12:16 PM on Wed Jun 20 2007
By Ben Popken
1,614 views, 16 comments

ask the consumerists

Wells Fargo Takes Over Policy, Decides House On Hill Is On A Flood Plain, Automatically Assesses And Withdraws Money For Flood Insurance

A reader asks: More »
Top 5 Online Banks For Customer Satisfaction You can't please all of the people all of the time, but you can try. Here's a list of the online banks that are trying the hardest.

35 comments

wells fargo

Don't Tell Your Bank If Your Checks Get Stolen...

If a box of your checks gets stolen from your mailbox, only call if you're going to cancel your account, at least if your bank is Wells Fargo. One blogger found they refused to cancel a whole box worth of checks stolen from his mailbox. And Wells Fargo told him that if he hung up without canceling his account, he removed the bank of any liability for any fraudulent checks getting cashed... More »

11:25 PM on Sat Jan 13 2007
By Ben Popken
884 views, 16 comments

wells fargo

Wells Fargo VISA Gift Card's Hidden Fees

Wells Fargo touts its prepaid VISA gift cards as "the perfect gift" and has sold over a million, but perhaps they would sell a little less if people knew about these terms and conditions, flushed out by Mouse Print: More »

11:56 AM on Mon Dec 18 2006
By Ben Popken
3,451 views, 22 comments

New Home Buyer Beware What to look out for when buying a new home: predatory lenders, kickbacks to title insurance companies and super-fun undisclosed terms. A cautionary tale, in the form of a reader letter, inside...

8 comments

wells fargo

Tear This Document To Shreds To See Your Wells Fargo Extended Protection Plan

Over at This Is Broken, reader Mike wrote in with a scan of an insert in his latest credit card bill from Wells Fargo. "One of those side-tear envelopes where you tear off one side and slide the contents out. The other three sides remain sealed, to ensure that the text printed on the inside of the envelope cover is unreadable." More »

5:34 AM on Wed Sep 13 2006
By consumerist.com
215 views, Comment

wells fargo

BREAKING: Wells Fargo Loses Laptop With Customers Private Data

Lee received a letter today from Wells Fargo notifying him that they lost a laptop containing his and other customer's private data. More »

5:09 PM on Fri May 12 2006
By popkin
296 views, 5 comments

customer service

Time to Human vs. Time to Sentience

With debit card fraud on the rise, banks are getting way hardcore about putting stops on accounts if they notice any slight deviation from normal activity. Unfortunately, their customer service desks haven't kept pace with the uptick. More »

10:55 PM on Thu Apr 27 2006
By popkin
191 views, 6 comments

time to human

Time to Human, Banks, Day 5

Ring ring, Mr. Banker, pick up the phone, we hit the stopwatch and hang up. Here are the results. More »

2:03 PM on Fri Apr 21 2006
By popkin
498 views, 2 comments

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