A Customer Now Involves Police After Massive Bank Closed Account

January 25, 2024

A customer now involves the police after a massive bank closed their account after five years, sources report.

A Capital One customer was shocked that their account was closed five years after they had an issue with the bank, reported The-Sun on Thursday.

The anonymous customer explained the unfortunate situation and asked for help in a Reddit post.

In the banking subreddit, they said that five years ago they were put in charge of a student organization and the business account was put in their name.

They noticed some strange activity on the account and found that the former treasurer had an old checkbook and wrote himself one for $8,000 after graduating.

“I reached out to him (I know I should have gone straight to the bank, I was 19) — to which he was responsive and said it was a mix-up with his roommate/business partner and he’d write a check for the $8000 back,” they said.

“He wrote that check and it bounced within a day or two.

Capital One of course did not like this, so I opened up a fraud case with them and the police.”

Nothing came of the case, and when the poster graduated they passed it on to someone else and forgot about it.

In the comments, they specified that the dispute was never closed in their favor because it would have required going to civil court.

Then, earlier this month, they got a call from Capital One saying it was terminating the banking relationship, their accounts were closed, and they were never allowed to bank with the company again.

“What the hell?! No one in support will or is allowed to help much, they just gave me 2 emails to reach which take 60 days to respond,” they wrote.

They said they would go into their local branch and try to re-open the case from 2018, but they were worried the incident would damage their overall banking relationship.

“Either way, I want to get this guy in trouble for what he did because this should NOT be my problem — I was the victim of fraud, not the perpetrator,” they wrote.

Luckily, they got all their money back, but now they’re forced to find a new bank, reports The-Sun.

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Three massive banks are now closing branches in Pennsylvania according to the latest data from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

Each week, the OCC releases a report of bank branches scheduled to close, and unfortunately, Pennsylvania has been hit hard by several major bank branches closing.

The latest banks to schedule branch closures in Pennsylvania are PNC Bank, Huntington Bank, and Citizens Bank.

These three banks have announced major branch closures as well as mass layoffs in the past year.

Below is a full list of bank branches that have recently closed or will close soon in Pennsylvania:

PNC Bank. 60 Washington St, East Stroudsburg
PNC Bank. 178 Bakery Square, Pittsburgh
PNC Bank. 476 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh
PNC Bank. 5932 Center Ave, Pittsburgh
Huntington NB. 650 Smithfield St, Pittsburgh
Citizens Bank. 5301 Grove Rd, Pittsburgh
Citizens Bank. 153 West Orange St, Shippensburg
Citizens Bank. 11000 Roosevelt Blvd, Philadelphia
Citizens Bank. 824 East St Rd, Warminster
Citizens Bank. 5142 State Rt 30, Greensburg
Citizens Bank. 6601 Roosevelt Blvd, Philadelphia
Citizens Bank. 1 Eeast Maun St, Lititiz
Bank of America. 3475 Aramingo Avenue, Philadelphia
Bank of America. 3100 Garrett Road, Drexel Hill
Bank of America. 6 East Trenton Avenue, Morrisville
Bank of America. 2439 Welsh Road, Philadelphia
PNC Bank. 202 N Walnut St, Bath
PNC Bank. 301 West Trenton Ave, Morrisville
PNC Bank. 14 N Main St, Plains
PNC Bank. Two North Mill St, New Castle
PNC Bank. 1969 E 3rd St, Williamsport

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