Liska O.
Yelp
I went to the bank to initiate a wire transfer. The bank rep who did it entered the receiving account number wrong. He missed it by 1 digit. When I realized and went back, they were completely unconcerned... sort of brushed it off as "Oh you have to just call the wire dispute department and they'll fix it, no problem." I call the department, they say they have to call me back in a couple of days. No call. I call them back, they say "we've changed our process, you have to go to the bank and tell them to email us that you are who you say you are & you authorize this change to the receiving number." I go back to this bank, they don't know what I'm talking about. They call the number and there's a massive hold time so they tell me to go home and and they'll call me with an update. After a couple of hours (to his credit, the rep waited on hold for a long time for me), he calls me to tell me he was told I have to email my updated info through their internal messaging service. I do this. I am emailed back (days later), that I have to call their wire dispute department. I go back and forth with them several times, always coming back to this department but by this point, whenever I call, I am on hold for hours (I hung up after 6 hours). It becomes apparent that the department has been shut down because of covid restrictions but they didn't leave an outgoing message or inform the rest of the bank departments! Finally I went to a different branch (on Los Feliz blvd) where they couldn't believe how poorly this had been handled and helped me finally reverse the wire transfer. The process took over a month, and involved another teller at the Los Feliz branch on hold the entire work day with the none-existent wire-dispute department. In the end, Chase bank put in new measures to deal with wire transfers because of covid and their entire department being shut down. Absolutely awful service from the bank in general, but the whole thing could have been avoided if one teller had been more careful, or his bosses had acted faster/more decisively to help me when the problem first started. A mess.