Bank Autopay Enrollment Silently Switches to eBill Causing Missed Payments
Customers who enroll in autopay are silently registered for eBill instead — a similar-sounding but fundamentally different feature that only notifies rather than pays. The resulting missed payments trigger collections calls and credit score damage before the customer realizes what happened. This is a UX/product design failure where two features with opposite outcomes are presented ambiguously during enrollment.
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