WAMU says no to driving cards as I.D.
12:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Marketing| Money
18 Oct 2005
If a report read on a local Utah television station’s web site is to be believed, it seems that bank Washington Mutual is not accepting government-issued “driving privilage cards” as identification for immigrants interested in banking at their establishment:
Latinos that have driving privilege cards are finding that Washington Mutual Bank location won’t recognize their cards as a legitimate form of identification.
Community Activist Tony Yapias says he’s heard about the problem in Ogden and Salt Lake City branches. “I think it’s unfortunate for Washington Mutual Bank to not accept it.”
I think it’s unfortunate, too. WAMU is one of the banks that I do my banking at, and I have been a rabid consumer evangelist for them for years, talking them up to my friends on their excellent customer service, low fees and all-around no-hassle way of doing business.
On a less personal level, we are talking about a business that spends hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising campaigns targeting not only the Latino market, but the monolingual Spanish-speaking market (read: immigrants), and that is competing in that arena with every other major bank in the U.S.
Bad move, I say. People need to feel safe when dealing with their money, not judged. Not accepting a card that has been accepted by the government as a legitimate form of identification seems to me to be not only as bad business, but bad community ambassadorship. A standard rule of business: don’t piss off a community to whom you are spending millions to market, and don’t burn the bridges you’ve worked so hard to build.
Via / Hispanic Tips and KSL.com
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2 Responses to WAMU says no to driving cards as I.D.
HispanicTips
October 18th, 2005 at 4:52 pm
VivirLatino » WAMU says no to driving cards as I.D.
“If a report read on a local Utah television station’s web site is to be believed, it seems that bank Washington Mutual is not accepting government-issued “driving privilage cards” as identification for immigrants interested in…
Helen Sparks
October 30th, 2005 at 5:21 pm
WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK RUN BY THEIVES!!!
I have had a Platnium checking account, savings account and two morgages with WAMU for over 7 years. On September 27th, I presented a CASHIER”S CHECK from INTEGRITY BANK for payment. I was told the funds were available immediately and secured said funds and distributed them as needed. Some money was paid in cash, some in money orders and some placed in savings. All in all maybe $3000 was left in my joint checking account.
On September 28th, after the fact of first honoring the cashiers check as required by law, my husband discovered when he went to bank that all our money in checking had been removed and we were showing a negative balance of $7,000!!! They STOLE over $10,000 from our joint account!!!! They refuse to respond or give ANY Explanation other than accusing me of giving them a BAD CASHIER’S CHECK!!!!! They have bounced checks causing me to have to obtain money orders for paying my bills, as well as returned check charges, and continue to mount up more SERVICE charges to my now negative balance account!!!!
Calls and letters have gone unanswered. They are holding the INTEGRITY BANK CASHIER’S CHECK, but sent me a photocopy and asked me to cover it!!!!
Meanwhile, we are suffering more and more damages from this and WAMU keeps charging my account more and more FRAUDULANT charges.
We just suffered yet another hurricane and thank God our new roof held but since WAMU stole our insurance money to pay for the roof….we cannot pay our roofers and now we have more damages.
WAMU SUCKS! THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE MY BANK YET THEY ARE STEALING FROM ME!!!! HELP!!!!! GOVERNMENT AGENCY THAT GOVERNS THRIFTS ARE DOING NOTHING ( LITTLE WONDER WHEN THE PRES. OF WAMU IS ON THE BOARD THAT REGULATES HIS BANK!!!!!!!!!
CAN YOU SAY CONFLICT OF INTEREST??????
I WANT MY MONEY BACK WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK RUN BY THEIVES!!!
I have had a Platnium checking account, savings account and two morgages with WAMU for over 7 years. On September 27th, I presented a CASHIER”S CHECK from INTEGRITY BANK for payment. I was told the funds were available immediately and secured said funds and distributed them as needed. Some money was paid in cash, some in money orders and some placed in savings. All in all maybe $3000 was left in my joint checking account.
On September 28th, after the fact of first honoring the cashiers check as required by law, my husband discovered when he went to bank that all our money in checking had been removed and we were showing a negative balance of $7,000!!! They STOLE over $10,000 from our joint account!!!! They refuse to respond or give ANY Explanation other than accusing me of giving them a BAD CASHIER’S CHECK!!!!! They have bounced checks causing me to have to obtain money orders for paying my bills, as well as returned check charges, and continue to mount up more SERVICE charges to my now negative balance account!!!!
Calls and letters have gone unanswered. They are holding the INTEGRITY BANK CASHIER’S CHECK, but sent me a photocopy and asked me to cover it!!!!
Meanwhile, we are suffering more and more damages from this and WAMU keeps charging my account more and more FRAUDULANT charges.
We just suffered yet another hurricane and thank God our new roof held but since WAMU stole our insurance money to pay for the roof….we cannot pay our roofers and now we have more damages.
WAMU SUCKS! THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE MY BANK YET THEY ARE STEALING FROM ME!!!! HELP!!!!! GOVERNMENT AGENCY THAT GOVERNS THRIFTS ARE DOING NOTHING ( LITTLE WONDER WHEN THE PRES. OF WAMU IS ON THE BOARD THAT REGULATES HIS BANK!!!!!!!!!
CAN YOU SAY CONFLICT OF INTEREST??????
I WANT MY MONEY BACK< MY GOOD CREDIT RESTORED AND LET INTEGRITY GET THEIR MONEY FROM THEIR CLIENT WHO CONDUCTED A FRAUDUALNT CLOSING AND PUT HOLD ON THEIR CHECK AFTER IT WAS CASHED!!!! Seee previous post about the INTEGRITY OF INTEGRITY BANK!!!!!!
I AM ANGRY AND I AM NOT LETING THEM BULLY ME AND ACCUSE ME OF WRONGDOING FOR CASHING A CASHIER’S CHECK! If they think I am just going to bow to their threats and take this &*&^$(&&_(*() they are wrong. I have only just begun.
More later….feel free to post you own WAMU THIEF stories here. THERE IS STRENGTH IN NUMBERS! WRITE ON! (forgive spelling I’m mad as hell right now)