U.S. Bancorp Credit Card Complaint

U.S. Bancorp Credit card department,

Identity theft / Fraud / Embezzlement Georgia

In - -, someone managed to break into my credit card account and steal reward points from it. No alert was generated at point redemption and I only accidentally found that out. I tried to contact US Bank officials persuading them to built a fraud protection into points redemption procedure, but despite my 5 calls and promises that someone from the management return my call, it never happened. Card was replaced and points credited back. I also found out that my points were transferred to another US Bank credit account and no fraudulent charges were applied to the card that clearly indicated that the thief 's target was only the reward points and he acted based on internal information available to US Bank employees only. On - - - I found that my card was compromised again and another - - reward points were stolen from my bank. When I called them, it turned out that US Bank was well aware of the breach but they did n't even try to call me and alert me on fraudulent activities in my account, let alone the fact that point redemption did n't generate any alerts, either, despite the fact that 6


dob, etc and they could n't do anything. I pulled all credit reports for me and my wife and found that our credit status has never been compromised. Also, nobody broke into our - other reward credit cards. Like in the first case, no fraudulent charges were found on the account, so target of criminal activities was again just my reward points. This makes me think that the crime was committed based on internal knowledge of someone inside US Bank, just like in the first case. Else, how can we explain their in depth knowledge of US Bank reward system and the fact that fraud was limited to only US Bank credit card and no other cards I have, and my identity was n't compromised based on credit reports? They promised to return my points in 6 weeks ; this is totally unacceptable and it ruins my vacation plans as I tried to redeem points for airline tickets on the day I discovered points theft. However, US Bank apparently tries to convince me that this is my problem. All in all, US Bank does exceptionally poor job protecting customers from fraud, their alert system is outdated, they refuse to communicate with customers and accept responsibility and conduct proper investigation. Essentially, the shift the blame to someone else leaving the customer unprotected. The manner in which they conduct the business is totally unacceptable.