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Alex M.

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  • Chase

8/31/21

Beware, Chase Bank DOESN'T keep your money safe!

A few weeks ago, a scammer wrote me a check for $23,000 to purchase a car with $8,500 going to shipping that car (along with a few others he was supposedly buying in the Florida area) up to Philadelphia. I deposited the check on 8/9/21 and Chase bank put a 9-day hold on it to make sure it would clear. I was actually grateful for that. I told the scammer that no car or money would be transferred until the check cleared.

Nine days later, the check cleared and the money was legitimately in the bank. He had me send $8,400 to give to the "shipper". I sent the money to the shipper and scheduled the date for pickup. The day the car was supposed to get picked up I got an email saying the scammer's father, for whom he was purchasing the car, had died that day and could he have his money back. Fortunately I said no.

ALMOST A WEEK LATER... on 8/27/21 I logged into my chase account to find every penny left in my checking account had been cleared out. I panicked thinking this guy had hacked my account somehow. It was worse... Chase had allowed TD Bank, (the bank that issued the check) to go back in and reclaim everything in my checking account.

This was almost three weeks after I deposited the check AND NINE DAYS after the check had cleared!

What kind of bank let's their own customer's accounts just get cleared out long after a check has been cashed, had a hold on it, verified that it was okay and then three weeks later just lets another bank come in and take all the money left in the account?!

DO NOT TRUST CHASE. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR CUSTOMERS OR THE MONEY IN YOUR ACCOUNTS. THEY WILL GIVE AWAY YOUR MONEY AND LET OTHER BANKS JUST COME IN AND PILFER YOUR ACCOUNTS.

MONEY IS NOT SAFE WITH CHASE AND NOW I AM LEFT WITH A ZERO ACCOUNT BALANCE IN A TIME WHERE I HAVE NO JOB BECAUSE MY AFTER-SCHOOL ART PROGRAM BUSINESS WAS DESTROYED BY COVID.

Please share this story as a word of warning to others so they don't get scammed by Chase Bank.

DO NOT TRUST CHASE BANK.

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