Despite the horde of commenters asserting he got slipped fake $100s by an African Safari company, reader BC persists in laying the blame on WaMu.
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Maybe Worse Than WaMu Snookery
By 10.4.06
After showing “WaMu Snookers With Scary Letter” to consumer expert Edgar Dworsky, he told us something potentially more frightening than just the letter being a well-disguised solicitation.
WaMu Snookers With Scary Letter
By 10.4.06
For a direct marketer, nothing is infra dig as long as it gets a sale.
WaMu’s Friendly Layout Gets Customer Robbed
By 10.2.06
A man is suing Washington Mutual’s for being robbed at knifepoint for $20,805 after leaving the bank.
WaMu Adds Chinese and Russian to ATMs
By 8.28.06
We have yet to independently verify this, i.e., we’ve been putting off going to the bank for a few days, but it seems that WaMu added Russian and Chinese to its ATM languages.
New Debit Card, Same Balogna Baloney
By 6.1.06
We received our happy super fun awesome new Washington Mutual GOLD debit card today.
Hidden Benefits of New Wamu Gold Card
By 5.12.06
Seems like we have yet another thing to look forward to when we receive our shiny new gold Wamu card we didn’t ask for.
Washington Mutual Is Our Friend With Benefits (That We Couldn’t Care Less About)
By 5.10.06
We’ve just been the lucky recipient of exciting news; the PIN range our debit card belongs to has been hacked. To celebrate, Washington Mutual is “upgrading” our debit card “to gold status for free.”
Time to Human, Banks, Day 5
By 4.21.06
Ring ring, Mr. Banker, pick up the phone, we hit the stopwatch and hang up. Here are the results.
Time to Human, Banks, Day 4
By 4.20.06
Today’s results in our week-long test of how long it takes banks humanoids to pick up the ring ring ring.
Time to Human, Banks, Day 3
By 4.19.06
The results of today’s benchmark test to see how long it takes banks’ live humans to pick up the phone.
UPDATE: Requiring Minimum Credit Card Purchases is a Violation
By 4.19.06
We’re scratching our heads and going in circles and starting to get dizzy.
Time to Human, Banks, Day 1
By 4.17.06
We’ll be calling up the banks this week to see who’s the quickest at having a human pick up the phone.
WaMu Helped Give Grandma s Money to Crooks
By 3.14.06
s grandma was defrauded by crooks who exploited a weakness in the WaMu merchant check verification system. Essentially, in order to cash a charge on your account, all a vendor (or in this case, scammer) has to do is get you to record you saying your account number.
Washington Mutual Unleashes Ill-Timed Debit Card Ads
By 3.13.06
That’ll go far. Every time a Russian scammer buys 1000 gross of babushkas using your stolen debit card info, you get three Lincolns!
