Hackers can crack your nest egg

WFIE-TV ^ | Rachel Beavin

[nkycincinnatikid]

Their is one way for consumers to benifit from this system. If you find a "new, small, competent, friendly bank", buy stock in it if possible. It WILL be taken over by US Bank, or another equally repugnant uber bank.

[TaxRelief]

Why does the keyboard need to be protected?

[Criminal Number 18F]

Their is one way for consumers to benefit from this system. If you find a "new, small, competent, friendly bank", buy stock in it if possible. It WILL be taken over by US Bank, or another equally repugnant uber bank.

My small bank, the National Grand Bank of Marblehead, Mass., has turned down those offers. I banked with them when I had beer money and when I had millions of my own and corporate money, and got the same good service.

For reasons known but to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, I could never set up DirectPay to go there, and so I opened a second account at another small bank. I also opened a credit card through a professional organisation of mine... both accounts wound up in the grasp of Bank of America, whose customer service policy can be boiled down to, "**** you."

AT 0820 EDT the website was alive again... it came back up some time during my six hours of downtime. It looks like the site had a graphical redesign. I used netcraft to check what it was running... and netcraft couldn't get an answer because the site apparently borked again.

I bet there are some real tired admins at BoA right now. (BTDT).

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Don Carlos]

Or, you could use Norton Password Manager or something similar.

[19th LA Inf]

I am trying to trace a suspected case of Medicare fraud. I paid a small medical bill without giving much thought, as my wife was having a number of tests and procedures. When the check showed up on my Chase online account page, it had been cleared through Bank of America with no endorsement - - I didn't know that was even possible. The suspected charge was a duplicate of one from a doctor that we know well; he never heard of the other "doctor" who is in the same field (cardiology) and supposedly practicing in the same hospital, but has no listed phone number. This guy is listed in a national MD directory as practing in about ten small towns in southern Pennsylvania, and "Dallas, Texas". I'm just thankful the amount was only about $15.00. The little Chiquita at the front desk of my bank told me that nobody in the bank could tell me where the Bank of America branch that ran my check through was located.

[staytrue]

You can also have 2 pc's. They are cheap. Use one for online transactions that never does anything but that and the other for general web browsing.

[RFEngineer]

"I was just in my Bank of America account. "

What a coincidence, I was just in your Bank of America account, too.

[Calpernia]

::rimshot::

[festus]

a new SS#? is that even possible.

Yes but I think they cost at least $100, more if you want a good one. ;-)

[ArmstedFragg]

they hunted down and killed my local bank.

I had my account at Security Pacific Bank, specifically to avoid B of A. Along came B of A and snapped it up. So I moved elsewhere, except for a little tiny IRA I left with them. Closed the IRA last week, and they charged me a 30 buck maintenance charge for 06, another 30 buck maintenance charge for the five business days of 07, and another fifty bucks to write the check. All told, it cost me a year's interest to move the account, and.. you know something? It was worth every penny.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Yep. Bank of America's customer service really sucks, but they make up for it by being a lousy value proposition.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F