OH NO! "Your Debit.Card have been locked" ( Scam Attempt)

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Wells Fargo is pitiful

I switched to Wells Fargo about 2010 when my local bank proved they were too stupid to be in business. At the time many banks were near failing due to all the bad mortgage loans and Wells seemed healthy. Wrong! They just knew how to hide bad loans better.

Anyway, we got ATM/Debit cards for convenience until someone tried to rip us off for $90K. We canceled the debit cards over 2 years ago. Today, Wells Fargo sent an email telling me my debit card was soon expiring. For the hell of it I called the 800 number and after finally getting a human I explained our debit cards were cancelled at our request over 2 years ago. The woman said OK thanks but I couldn't resist giving the bank some ****. Great interactive systems you have Ha Ha.

These banks seem to survive by pretending everything is fine.
 
I am amazed at the number of people who wake up in the morning and go to work stealing from others. It's truly epidemic.

We -- ahem! -- "seasoned" citizens need to be especially vigilant. I got a call the other day at my home number from an "Amazon" representative who had a foreign accent you could cut with a knife. He told me he was calling to verify that I had placed an order. I asked him to give me a number where I could call him back...and he hung up immediately.

Be careful, friends...
 
Both my wife and I get text messages and email from spammers stating that we have accounts that are locked for one reason or another. A lot of them are Amazon spammers too

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I think people who would do that for a living are scum.
 
I've received several phone calls that claimed to be from Amazon security about a $1400 charge. You could hear the boiler room background noise. They quit after I told them they weren't from Amazon security. "Yes we are! " I claimed to be from Amazon security, they haven't called back.
 
But you also need to pay attention to random notifications. Just be sure you don't use the information in the notification to contact the company.

I once got a notification that I had registered a gift card to my Walmart account. I hadn't. I looked up Walmart security contact info on their website and called them. When the guy looked at my account he was like dumbfounded. I had thousands of gift cards that had been linked to my account. Each of them had less than a dollar in value. Sounded like an inside job to me. He froze all the cards and killed my account. I never got the rest of the story.

They had hacked my account somehow. I didn't really use it much at the time and the email I had used was one that had been involved in some company's data-breach.

It's not a bad idea to use a segregated email address just for financial accounts and another for all other registrations.
 
Pretty much each and every one of these scams has hit my text messaging and/or email over the past few years. They get ignored, especially as most claim to be from companies I have no dealings with.

A recent trend has been text messages just saying "Hi" or "Hello" coming from out of state numbers. Just yesterday I received one saying "Found this number on my phone, do I know you?" For each of these, I perform exactly two steps: Block, and delete thread. Guessing that they are looking for a response in order to reel you in.
 
I have my credit union app on my phone, as a general precaution, both my wife and I have the Card frozen until we plan to use it, then it's just a simple swipe in the credit union app. I do the same with AMEX and Discover.
 
Let me tell you what stuff like this has done to me. Because of the dirty, rotten, scumbag, scammers, I don't believe legitimate emails I receive are not scamming me. I figure better safe than sorry. I regularly get emails from my credit card company asking me what category I want to use for my different reward levels. In other words, I get 5% cash back for restaurants and 3% for gas etc. I can change these every so often. The first time I got one of these emails, I knew it was a scam. I went to my card's website and found out it wasn't. But, still to this day, when I get one of these emails, I won't hit the link to go to "my account". I make sure I start all changes for my cards or banking myself. Are any of you anal about this like me?
Larry
 
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