Amex Complaint: Identity theft / Fraud / Embezzlement

#1693410 11 Dec 2015

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Complaint #1693410 submitted on 12/11/2015 relating to Amex. Complaint relates to Credit card - Identity theft / Fraud / Embezzlement .

Complaint was submitted via Web and sent to the company on Friday 11th December 2015.

Narrative (may be redacted).

AMEX accepted a charge from a merchant against my account. I disputed it, as the merchant was a third party ( XXXX Mortgage ), did not have my authorization to charge my account, and the party that I had a relationship ( XXXX ) had indicated to me that no charges would be made, partially due to malfeasance by the third party and its agents. To respond to the dispute, the third party provided written documentation to AMEX stating that they were a telemarketing firm and had to charge people to stay in business, and provided a copy of my agreement with XXXX as proof. AMEX accepted that assertion as proof and closed the dispute. I fail to see how either was adequate. AMEX has since just told me that they really do n't process the dispute - it is just if they receive any response, they close it. Since AMEX closed my dispute, I have been fighting with AMEX to get them to look at their dispute process as the XXXX XXXX had no standing, and their accepting the charge and closing the dispute, when they were provided written evidence that they third party had no standing, were both evidences of broken processes within AMEX. I 've spoken to many CSRs and supervisors in card services at AMEX, and they all claim that there is no way to flag a call to have this matter looked into, there is no internal audit or internal controls group at AMEX, there is no Executive Customer Resolution center to escalate to, and all just basically dismiss my concerns. One call wen tot XXXX, but language difficulties prevented me from even getting them to understand the problem. XXXX call did get escalated to Fraud in XXXX, but they explained that they are n't really Fraud they are only set up to deal with Identity Theft. Based on this experience and other recent issues with them, I am in the process of closing a thirty-plus year relationship with them.

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