New York Community Bank Complaint: Account opening, closing, or management

#1658335 17 Nov 2015

Bank account or service Checking account

Complaint #1658335 submitted on 11/17/2015 relating to New York Community Bank. Complaint relates to Bank account or service Checking account - Account opening, closing, or management .

Complaint was submitted via Web and sent to the company on Tuesday 17th November 2015.

Narrative (may be redacted).

I have been having problems with this bank, and decided to close me account. I contacted them to get explicit directions on how to close it. I had numerous problems with this bank before and wanted to make sure I could l so without incurring any fees. It is an interest baring account. I called to find out to close the account, but get the remaining interest due. I was told in that situation to leave {$1.00} t {$2.00} in the account and the remaining interest would be deposed after the next cycle closed ; after that happened, I could with withdraw out any penalties. Instead I got numerous letters that my account was overdrawn, because the bank charged me fees for not meeting a minimum balance. I got multiple letters threatening they were going to report to the credit reports and that this was a default that was going to show up on my credit report. They were claiming my account was overdrawn {$8.00} ; they had charged me {$10.00}, directly contradicting their directions that said that they would not do that. When I first contacted them, I got the complete run around. First they told me they could not legally reverse the fees. When I threatened to sue them, they said they would reverse the charges. I insisted they send me a letter verifying my account was not overdrawn and that they would not contact the credit agency. They have refused even to address the issue after months of my asking them to : this is wholly illegal. All their responses say is that my account now has no balance due, which I know. I contacted them XXXX times and they refuse to address whether they sent this information to a credit agency or took or will take any adverse action. I believe their refusal to respond is also directly retaliatory, because of the documented issues I had with this before. I think that they violated multiple laws. They Illegally sent or threatened to send misinformation to credit agencies, and then have refused to address those threats and whether they have done so. The only amount that was over drawn on the account was the amount they illegally charged me.

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