Someone signed up for their Wells Fargo account with my email address. For weeks, I tried to get in contact with Wells Fargo about the problem. I spent a lot of time on the phone with the 'security team' and nothing ever came of it. In the end, I kept receiving all of this person's banking information.
It wasn't so much a security problem so much as it was annoying to get this person's banking info all the time. (I assume I would have needed more than access to email to get into his account.)
In the end, after several phone calls and then tweeting at Wells Fargo, it was the Facebook reps that were able to get someone to call me and sort the problem out. The rep who called even verified that the first three of my social didn't match the account holder, so it wasn't identity theft.
Completely annoying but in the end, it just took finding that one person that understood and cared to help.
It wasn't so much a security problem so much as it was annoying to get this person's banking info all the time. (I assume I would have needed more than access to email to get into his account.)
In the end, after several phone calls and then tweeting at Wells Fargo, it was the Facebook reps that were able to get someone to call me and sort the problem out. The rep who called even verified that the first three of my social didn't match the account holder, so it wasn't identity theft.
Completely annoying but in the end, it just took finding that one person that understood and cared to help.