This is a 100% true story, and I filed a complaint with the Maryland Bank commission. I bought a car recently, and my loan was assigned to truist bank which is the new bank from the merger of SunTrust and BB&T banks.
Had some trouble getting the first payment set up because apparently their internal people found a loan. I had there 10 years ago and merged the information from that with my new loan. Unfortunately, I haven't lived at that address in seven years, I haven't had that phone number in seven years, and that loan was joint with my ex-wife. That prevented me from establishing an online banking account because none of the information they had on file was really mine. So after three phone calls in about two hours of my time I thought I had that straightened out and made my first payment. Three weeks later I get a statement from them and they're still wrong information. I decided I was done wasting time and I went to the branch in Columbia to pay off the loan. They told me I need an appointment to see a bank specialist? I guess they have too much business they don't need to help people walking in the door. Anyway after waiting a while, they finally gave me a payoff amount for my loan and I wrote a check from a different bank. Within two hours of me, leaving the bank somebody claiming to be from Truist called me and tried to get more personal information about me. I realized it was somebody scamming me, and ended the call. I am mediately, got a fraud, alert warning from my bank. Somebody inside of Truist sent my information to a criminal to try to hack my accounts and commit fraud. I tried to call truest fraud department, only to get connected to a call center in India where no one understood what I was talking about. I had to drive immediately to my bank and close my accounts because they were still trying to hack into them because they had a copy of my check with my bank account, and by the time I got to my branch, they had already opened a Zelle account on it. I even called the vice president/branch manager the next day and told her. She is she still didn't attempt to connect me with anyone in their fraud department. Avoid this bank at all costs read more