Ripoff Report Needs Your Help!
X  |  CLOSE
Report: #352338

Complaint Review: 53 Bank - Chicago Illinois

  • Submitted:
  • Updated:
  • Reported By: Chicago Illinois
  • Author Confirmed What's this?
  • Why?
  • 53 Bank 53.com Chicago, Illinois U.S.A.

53 Bank ,53 bank stole my tuition and I'm their Employee Chicago Illinois

*Consumer Comment: It's the merchant's fault

Show customers why they should trust your business over your competitors...

Is this
Report about YOU
listed on other sites?
Those sites steal
Ripoff Report's
content.
We can get those
removed for you!
Find out more here.
How to fix
Ripoff Report
If your business is
willing to make a
commitment to
customer satisfaction
Click here now..

I'm a 53 employee working for item processing in elmhurst Illinois. I cancelled my insurance at the begining of the year and they continued to make unauthorized charges to my account. Finally after 6 months of constant pressure I got them to cancel but they refused to reimburst me as deems company policy. This money was part of my tuition for the following semester.

After this inccident numerous blunders were made on my account where they would charge me over $121.00 dollars for items such as a bottle of water and $20.00 of gas, putting me in the negative. When this was brought to their attention they put the $100.00 back but did not remove the overdraft fees. This has happened three times so far.

Just recently I lost my check book and went into the bank to cancel the account and transfer funds to a new account so any fraud would not be committed; turns out all the manager of the banking center did was open a new account with $0.00 and left the old account open and active. Sure enough unauthorized charges started coming through costing me over $500.00 in overdraft fees. When I asked them to fix it they simply said I would have to basically eat the bill.

Just yesterday I boycotted in front of the bank in 95 degree weather 90% humidity and made them lose numerous accounts. I plan on doing this till all of my money is refunded over $1500.00; and yes they called the police on me 3 times and all they police did was give me their support with a blare of the sirens and a thumbs up. By the way thank you Chicago Police for your support.
Also so that everyone knows I'm an employee, my employee number is E019036. If this is how they treat us how will they treat their customers.

Alex
Chicago, Illinois
U.S.A.

This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 07/17/2008 10:42 AM and is a permanent record located here: https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/53-bank/chicago-illinois-60639/53-bank-53-bank-stole-my-tuition-and-im-their-employee-chicago-illinois-352338. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year. Ripoff Report has an exclusive license to this report. It may not be copied without the written permission of Ripoff Report. READ: Foreign websites steal our content

Search for additional reports

If you would like to see more Rip-off Reports on this company/individual, search here:

Report & Rebuttal
Respond to this report!
What's this?
Also a victim?
What's this?
Repair Your Reputation!
What's this?

Updates & Rebuttals

REBUTTALS & REPLIES:
0Author
1Consumer
0Employee/Owner

#1 Consumer Comment

It's the merchant's fault

AUTHOR: John - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Thursday, July 17, 2008

not the banks. The bank has no idea what merchants you allow to access your account. You are responsible for contacting the merchant (insurance co.) and getting them to stop trying to debit your account since it was you that allowed it in the first place. The gas/soda issue is common as it was the gas station that requested the $100 hold which the bank had to honor. The $100 was 'put back' because you only charged 'x' amount of gas and it was less than the $100 hold but apparently at least $20.
You choose to use a debit card and online payment. This is what causes your problems - not the bank. Use cash and go back to writing checks.

Respond to this report!
What's this?
Featured Reports

Advertisers above have met our
strict standards for business conduct.

X
What do hackers,
questionable attorneys and
fake court orders have in common?
...Dishonest Reputation Management Investigates Reputation Repair
Free speech rights compromised

WATCH News
Segment Now