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Your online banking should help. It would show up there.

Yeah, this is why I'm doing this. This is the scam.

You probably wouldn't get a message. I would either pull my credit (free under annualcreditreport.com), check online banking or call the 800 number and make sure nothing else pulls up under your ss#

I couldn't speculate on how many people have closed their accounts.

As far as the fines and response..that's a tough one too...how do you calculate the damage it's done to countless people that have had credit drawn on their name without their permission. The damage includes FICO's that have dropped due to credit pulls, which in turn leads to higher interest rates for loans people have taken about subsequent to their finding out about all this. I find it funny that 5200 employees were fired, but I still know of plenty that are doing it, and one just got back from a WF trip because of her high credit numbers. I've watched and read the interviews with John Stumpf, and I can tell you now, he's full of shit. This is a culture he and Tolstedt created. If you didn't have 10 approved credit per week, your ass was grass. You were pounded by management. I've literally had customers in my office who's wife had just died, and wanted to process beneficiary services, and was ridiculed because I didn't try to sell credit to this person...who promotes that kind of culture?

It's pretty corrupt. It's not about banking or helping customers at all. It's all about getting credit. A typical day at the bank would go like this:

Every morning starts with a sales call. The sales call consists of the DM going over how the tellers and bankers can get more credit, and having the managers commit to so many a day (a banker needs to have 2 accounts and 4 credit apps a day, no matter what. As a banker you are approached at least 3 times a day to see how many you've gotten). What the call is geared towards is how the branches are going to achieve that. For instance, one week it may be concentrated on the tellers searching through your transaction history when you come to do a deposit or withdrawal. The tellers will be tasked with getting 5 walkovers to a banker in one day by looking through your history and seeing that you make a payment to a loan or credit card. If they see that, then it's a signal to try to get you to a banker. They'll do that by making up stuff if necessary (like saying your phone number is incorrect, we need to get you to a banker to correct that, then immediately sending a message to the banker stating that the customer is making payment to a credit card)...this signals the banker to automatically steer the conversation towards what credit you have and convincing them that you need Wells Fargo because the interest rate is lower, etc. Also, this is sometimes where the fraudulent credit card is started..."Mr. Customer, I just need you to sign the pinpad to confirm the corrected address", when in reality they just did a cc app for them.

Sorry if it's rambling...it's early