Date Received: 2020-11-27
Issue: Written notification about debt
Subissue: Didn't receive enough information to verify debt
Consumer Complaint: Please be advised that I, XXXX XXXX have always believed that maintaining an excellent credit history is essential to survive in any economic environment. However, there are times when an individual may face certain health issues that effects ones ability to pay their bills on time, or if a hospital stat limits the ability to stay on top of their affairs. I personally over the past three years have faced several medical issues that caused me to be late on a few payments, be that credit cards or vehicle payments. There were times when I believe I was within the 30-day grace period. I have been perfect on my payment history for well over a year now. Accordingly, I am requesting a professional courtesy to delete the sole or few late payments on my account with your financial institution. You may do a light audit on payments which might prove that I was paying within the 30-day grace period, but I will defer to your professionalism on this matter. It truly has been a pleasure being a creditor with your organization, and I am thankful that you have placed your trust in my ability to pay my bills in a timely manner. XXXX XXXX
Company Response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
State: NJ
Zip: 070XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-11-27
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-11-27
Issue: Written notification about debt
Subissue: Didn't receive enough information to verify debt
Consumer Complaint: Please be advised that I, XXXX XXXX have always believed that maintaining an excellent credit history is essential to survive in any economic environment. However, there are times when an individual may face certain health issues that effects ones ability to pay their bills on time, or if a hospital stat limits the ability to stay on top of their affairs. I personally over the past three years have faced several medical issues that caused me to be late on a few payments, be that credit cards or vehicle payments. There were times when I believe I was within the 30-day grace period. I have been perfect on my payment history for well over a year now. Accordingly, I am requesting a professional courtesy to delete the sole or few late payments on my account with your financial institution. You may do a light audit on payments which might prove that I was paying within the 30-day grace period, but I will defer to your professionalism on this matter. It truly has been a pleasure being a creditor with your organization, and I am thankful that you have placed your trust in my ability to pay my bills in a timely manner. XXXX XXXX
Company Response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
State: NJ
Zip: 070XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-11-27
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-11-26
Issue: Problem when making payments
Subissue: Problem during payment process
Consumer Complaint: On XX/XX/2018 my bill did not go through when it was on auto-bill. I reached out to the company and they said that they saw the payment try to come out of the bank but it was rejected. They never notified me of the rejection and gave me this late payment. I now can not get a mortgage because of this mark on my credit and the company will not help me with this unfair situation.
Company Response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
State: NY
Zip: 11230
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-12-10
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-11-25
Issue: Problem with a lender or other company charging your account
Subissue: Transaction was not authorized
Consumer Complaint: 2 fraudulent checks were withdrawn from my account with M & T for {$1000.00} in early XXXX I believe the date was XX/XX/11. 8 checks tried to be withdrawn but since I only had available funds for 2, only 2 checks went through. Each was made out to a different name and I did not recognize any of them. Checks were deposited in XXXX XXXX XXXX accounts Check were manufactured with check numbers out of sequence. All information on the check was typed. Check had my signature on it and resembled a check I had written a few days prior. I filed a police and sign the affidavit with the bank. No one got back to for months. I called several times and they had no updates for me. In XXXX the bank closed the account and then sent to me collections for overdraft fees from the checks. I was told those fees would be waived once this issue was resolved. I went into the branch end of XXXX/early XXXX and spoke with the branch manager. She said everything was filed correctly and that they should have opened another account for me to attach the case too. She also said that I should have been given provisional credit, which I was never given. She called the department handling the case and started emailing them. She said she would call me with updates and gave me her card. She called me the next day and said they were working on and it since my account was closed they wouldn't need to open another they would have the money added to the branch and give me the funds from there. I emailed the branch manager and called her direct line several times over a 2 week period. I finally had to call the branch directly to get a hold over her. She told me that they declined my case, she couldn't give me a reason and said that she opened another case. I asked for the number of the people handling my case in fraud and the investigator, she could not give me either she gave me the 1 800 number for the fraud department and said if I called them they would just put an alert on the case. This has been 7 months of terrible customer service and communication.
Company Response:
State: DE
Zip: 19720
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-11-25
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-11-25
Issue: Incorrect information on your report
Subissue: Information belongs to someone else
Consumer Complaint: On XXXX. XXXX, 2020, XXXX add a hard inquiry on my credit report per XXXX. On XXXX. XXXX, 2020, XXXX XXXX XXXX add a hard inquiry on my credit report per XXXX. On XXXX. XXXX, 2020, M & T BANK INDIR add a hard inquiry on my credit report per XXXX.
Company Response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
State: TX
Zip: 77036
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-12-09
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-11-24
Issue: Incorrect information on your report
Subissue: Account status incorrect
Consumer Complaint: The company is inaccurately reporting late payments to credit bureaus, as account has been closed well over a year, and was reported as fraudulent and is not reporting as such. I have called the company multiple times to get this corrected to no resolve.
Company Response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
State: TX
Zip: 77091
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-11-24
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-11-19
Issue: Problem with a company's investigation into an existing issue
Subissue: Their investigation did not fix an error on your report
Consumer Complaint: I am an XXXX XXXX from XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, which lived in XXXX, Maryland. The thing is that M & T bank closed my account without any powerful reasons and put me on their blacklist for no reason when I was trying to start a new account. I was told that my account was closed in XXXX, and I went to the local branch as soon as possible to ask for help, the representative told me they will help me to build a new account but I need to make an appointment on the phone call. After making an appointment I went there in XXXX. When the representative found my account was closed, she said I will be not permitted to apply for any M & T bank services any more in my whole life. After I left I just have something want to ask, such as what about the online application account, and why my account was closed and so on. So I decided to go back there to ask for the questions one more time. However, when I walked into the bank, a bank stuff who was standing on the front desk drove me out because she said the representative need to eat dinner. She said that I can go back to ask for help after 20 mins later. I listened to her and went outside to wait for the permission. At that time, I saw different customers entering into the bank. They can be treated as normal customers but only expect me, a XXXX? 10 mins later on, the XXXX woman who worked in the front desk went outside, then she drove me out rudely. She interrupted my words several times and carried off the representatives name card which she gave me before. She warned me You will not be permitted to enter into this bank any more forever, go to find another bank do you need recommendations? You even can not stand outside of this bank. I was really shocked because I am just a XXXX and dont do any suspicious activity on my money account. My money transaction history is only for my daily life fee and rent fee. In conclusion, I want to report for two things : the first is that why the bank can close someones account without any reasons even for an unblemished M & T bank account record. The second thing is for the racism for bank stuffs. They drove me out and treated me like a dangerous fraudster without any proofs, and treated me different from other American customers. The address of this M & T bank is XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, XXXX MD XXXX.
Company Response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
State: MD
Zip: 21202
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-11-19
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-11-19
Issue: Credit monitoring or identity theft protection services
Subissue: Problem canceling credit monitoring or identify theft protection service
Consumer Complaint: I am writing to respond to M & Ts reply to my XX/XX/XXXX complaint # XXXX as well as to CORRECT my complaint. I did not correctly explain the situation in that complaint and I attest that the following is what I meant to express in my initial complaint : I just learned in XXXX, XXXX, that back in XXXX, XXXX, when I was XXXX years old, my parents had my signature forged onto a mortgage note so they could buy a home. I did not sign that note or any documents related to the purchase of the home. I was only XXXX and I was out of state at college at the time. I had no idea my parents were using my personal information and my income ( as an employee of their company ) to qualify for the mortgage. The loan information never appeared on my credit reports, nor was my name printed on any monthly mortgage statements. I only learned that my name was on the account when the account started reporting to the credit bureaus in XXXX, XXXX. As soon as I learned I could make a complaint to the CFPB for assistance I filed my complaint. I did not accurately describe the problem in my XX/XX/XXXX complaint. I also alleged predatory lending practices but I didnt mean that M & T had engaged in anything predatory ; I meant I felt something was wrong if parents can forge their teen-aged childs signature and buy a house. If there was any wrongdoing, it was likely on the part of my parents, their lawyers and their mortgage broker.
Company Response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
State: NY
Zip: 11101
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-11-19
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-11-18
Issue: Closing on a mortgage
Subissue:
Consumer Complaint: I have requested the M & T Bank records for my 1999 original purchase Hudson City Savings Bank mortgage. M & T Bank acquired HCSB and should have the lien release records. I suspect that the " BOOKS HAVE BEEN COOKED '' and that the HCSB mortgage was not paid off because the mortgage was never issued from the beginning. After my offer was accepted in 1999 I tried to get an attorney to do the closing and the attorneys told me a variety of reason that the house could not be sold such as it was owned by the town, that the property was foreclosed on and that the house belongs to a pool of homes that can't be sold. I got a call back from attorney XXXX XXXX XXXX who said he could do the closing. The sellers signed under penalty of perjury that they were selling me XXXX XXXX XXXX and not the correct address of XXXX XXXX XXXX. The lot and block were changed before the sale. The sellers closed with power of attorney and the deed and the title insurance are no where near along with many other things that point to fraud. THE COUNTY RECORDS ALSO SHOW THAT THE MORTGAGE WAS NEVER FILED. I AM REQUESTING M & T Bank to be honest with me and forward me any records that they have of XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, N.J. XXXX
Company Response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
State: NJ
Zip: 074XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-11-18
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2020-11-13
Issue: Problem caused by your funds being low
Subissue: Overdrafts and overdraft fees
Consumer Complaint: On XX/XX/20, I noticed fraud on my debit card. Two XXXX of {$1000.00}, {$1000.00} and two XXXX XXXX charges of {$1000.00} and {$2000.00}, and two deposited checks. I filed a police report and an identify theft report with the FTC. Both of those were sent to the bank. We called on XX/XX/20 to report the fraudulent activity and submitted a fraud dispute on XX/XX/20 in person at the local XXXX branch in XXXX, PA. My bank, M & T has issued refunds to my account for the two deposits ( {$20.00} reissued for each fraud check deposited ) and two XXXX transactions of {$1000.00} and another {$1000.00} dollars. However, this was first done to my mom 's joint account not the account in question. We were never notified by the bank. We had to contact the local bank branch manager in XXXX, PA last week on XX/XX/20 and tell them the money was issued to the wrong account and then they move it to the correct one. However, we never received any statement saying this. Then, we waited 12 days until we heard again from a fraud worker with the bank. The fraud worker was focused on deposits. He kept saying I must have deposited the checks based on my phone number. I absolutely did not do this. He had no information for me about the XXXX XXXX fraud. We are currently disputing the XXXX XXXX charges on the account for reimbursement and they had no information for us about those charges. Also nothing has been sent to us in writing. Again, it has been over the 10 day requirement. Here are the overaching concerns : 1. We notified the bank of fraud activity when the XXXX XXXX charges were pending on XX/XX/20. We asked the bank to STOP pay on these since we did not authorize them. They did not. They let these charges go through. 2. M & T charged us insufficient fund fees based on these charges that made the account negative during the ongoing investigation. During this entire investigation, they kept trying to charge us insufficient fund fees even though federal law states this is illegal. 3. M & T has not provided us with any written communication about their investigation. We have been kept in the dark. We do not feel safe as consumers and members of this bank. They are not following federal laws that protect consumers and they are not following required guidelines for fraud investigation. We ask that the CFPB holds M & T bank accountable for not following the required timeline for handling this fraud case and not keeping consumers safe when they report fraud. Again, we reported the XXXX XXXX fraud before the transactions when through and they did not stop this fraudulent activity from occurring.
Company Response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
State: CO
Zip: 80014
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2020-11-13
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A