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Wells Fargo charged 570,000 customers for auto insurance they didnt need
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Washington Post, July 28, 2017
Posted: August 6th, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/07/28/w...

Wells Fargo acknowledged Friday that for six years about 570,000 of its customers were charged for auto insurance they didnt need, potentially driving some to default on their loan and have their cars repossessed. The San Francisco bank said it would start refunding about $80 million, or about $140 each, to customers next month. The revelation quickly sparked a backlash from lawmakers still angry after Wells Fargo admitted last year that thousands of its employees had created millions of fake credit card and bank accounts for customers without their knowledge. No wonder so many hard-working Americans believe the system is rigged against them in Wall Streets favor, Sen. Sherrod Brown, the ranking Democrat on the Banking Committee, said in a statement. Sen. Elizabeth Warren ... renewed her call for the Federal Reserve to force Wells Fargos board of directors to resign. There are surely deep ... problems at a bank when it opens millions of fake customer accounts and charges nearly a million customers for a financial product they dont need, Warren said in a statement. The Wells Fargo Board is ultimately responsible for that failure. Wells Fargo said the most recent scandal is centered on its auto lending business. Customers loan contracts require them to maintain auto insurance and allow the bank to buy it for them if there is no evidence that the customers have a policy, the bank said. But ... customers were being charged for auto insurance premiums even though they already had another policy.

Note: Read more about the massive fraud perpetrated by Wells Fargo. Steve Glazer, chairman of the California Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee, recently compared this bank's actions with the behavior of Enron when its culture of corruption initially came to light. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing banking corruption news articles from reliable major media sources.


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