U.S. Bancorp Prepaid Card Complaint

U.S. Bancorp Prepaid card department,

General purpose card Unauthorized transactions/trans. issues California

Bought a $500.00 US Bank Visa Pre Paid Gift Card from - - - was handed an activation receipt at time of purchase. Called into Card Member Services - to change pin immediately after and was sent to Customer Care agent who told me that the funds were there but the card had not been fully activated even though I had a receipt showing otherwise. Followed their instructions to fax required info to Card Activation department at -. Called back next business day to confirm receipt of fax and information and was told by agent it would be at least - business days before someone worked the issue. Called in again the next business day anyways just to see if the card had been activated and the card balance now showed $1.00 so I pressed - to speak to agent. Agent advised now there was a charge of $490.00 on the card which was done at some - somewhere using the card number and pin, which I clearly did n't make. Followed their process now to contact Fraud at -. Faxed in information to - and called to speak to representative in Fraud. Was told I needed to file police report and wait for them to mail affidavit before my case could be reviewed and to expect 3 to 4 months to get my stolen funds back. Asked to speak to manager and was told by agent nobody was available and they were outsourced by US Bank and they could provide me no further help or points of escalation on this issue and I simply needed to follow the process and wait. Found many other issues like this on-line with simple search. Clearly a larger fraud issue and I should n't have to go through this crazy process as a consumer to get my money back.