[kj] 14-Minute KJ Documentary trailer...

[Brendan]

I was reading about the impending Wikieleaks leak of Bank of America
documents (should be fun), and the comments section was peppered with
disgruntled ex BoA customers.


>From my own experience I know a lot of banks these days have systems which

are programmed to schedule payments in such a way as to maximise the
possibility of overdraft, i.e. delaying processing of credits and
processing debits first...


> Rheinhold Squeegee wrote:

>

> The section starting around 8:25 where Jaz says he would be a suicide

> bomber and then pretends to shoot the submachine gun is just

> silly and offensive. I know that's his schtick, but I hope it gets removed

> from the final product.

>

> Also, at about the same time they list all the evil corporations that Jaz

> wants to destroy, including Wells Fargo Bank where my

> girlfriend works here in Minneapolis. She finds this video hilarious. It

> is now making the rounds at Wells Fargo corporate...

>

> +++++++

>

> Regarding Wells Fargo, Jaz has my blessings.

>

> Long story short, WF has a long standing policy to actively and

> continuously research customers' credit history looking for

> judgements, bankruptcy proceedings and other credit issues.  While some

> major banks also have this policy, Wells Fargo is the

> ....ehh, leader in taking the initiative in fucking their customers in

> this questionably legal practice.

>

> If a customer shows a bankruptcy proceeding in progress, WF automatically

> places a hold on all that customer's accounts, effectively

> cutting off all funds for that customer without prior notice.  They do

> with without any authorization from any court or direction

> from any attorney.  In most cases, Wells Fargo holds on to the money until

> a BK is closed and then disperses their customer's money

> to any court appointed trustee who theoretically would pay any people and

> businesses listed in a BK.

>

> This happened to my wife and I a couple years ago - problem was, we didn't

> have any bankruptcy case going on, in fact never had and

> haven't to this day.  Although we never got a straight, honest answer, it

> appeared that someone who's name closely matched my wife's

> maiden name (which is a pretty common name) had a active BK who had a WF

> account, they fucked up and locked down our account. The

> funny thing was, the social security numbers didn't come close to

> matching. We discovered it a few days later when our online

> mortgage payment bounced. We had almost 50K frozen leaving us with only

> our current paychecks to make ends meet and it took a lawyer

> (which we paid for out of pocket) and over a month to get things

> straightened out.

>

> Wells Fargo can kiss my crusty bunghole.

>

> T.B.

>

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