Wells Fargo Trapped Duplicate Payment Refund for Over a Year Through Contradictory Instructions
Wells Fargo collected a duplicate payment from a customer's external account, then took over a year to return the overpayment while giving different instructions at each contact point. The bank closed the customer's account without consent, lost the initial refund check, and required an affidavit before reversing course repeatedly. Each escalation introduced a new contradictory requirement with no ownership of the resolution.
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