Category: Netspend

Achievecard in the Mail and they have my Social Socurity Number?? WTH??

Paul


As you can see Achieve Card sent my wife an unsolicited mail with this card in it.   In order to “activate it” You must your last 4 of your Social Security Number!!  Now I talked about Netspend doing this also but they didn’t keep the IP‘s of who referred them.   This seems to be the same way and I am very concerned.   I would like to stop these companies from getting my Social or my wife’s Social.

Don’t tell me you don’t have my Social, You just tell me you do!!

When I made the blog post about Netspend, There was a comment from Staff101 and he said they didn’t have my social but if that is the case with this card. Then why would they have the pin being the last 4 of my SSN(see picture above)?? Again, if you are going to comment telling me that you don’t have my social. Your gravely mistaken, and that really concerns me and others. My privacy and security is essentially something that I take seriously. I haven’t called this company because they are probably like Netspend and will tell me they don’t have the information on who gave them the information. I am not happy and would like to find the person/company doing this. This seems to be a continuing problem.

Should I Activate this Achievecard??

Well, I will tell you I am not going to activate this card because of all these problems:

Netspend sends out card that I didn’t order :

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I arrived home today with Netspend card in my Mailbox. The letter states that I ordered the card and it has arrived. So I am concerned because of the possible [intlink id=”2644″ type=”post”]Identity theft[/intlink] that could be going on so I call them to find out what the heck is going on.   I call to find out it who signed me up for this and to get some kind of information as to the people who had this information about me.   I ask for the financial service that “recommended me for this Card” because I want to make a phone call to them about the security concerns  about sharing my personal information.   I say that because they had my Name, my mailing address.  This isn’t totally hard to find had I had a Land phone but with me just having a cell phone.

[ad]I ask for the IP of the person who signed me up and they said they don’t have that information and they have no information on who did it.  This sounds  like a poor way  to offer pre-paid card that has a VISA logo.   I think this is poor security and if someone signs me up and uses my identity what ever happened to logs?    This is what is most concerning to me, because I would have expected if someone signs up they would at least keep the IP in case of some criminal activity to know if it was one IP that is making so many creation of cards.   This is a fundamental principle in financial institutions that hold our money.

I did a Google search for others who had this happened and I see a bunch of people complaining about the same thing.  Some of the more important topics were, Netspend Is A Fraud! and Unethical Pirates! I found some really concerning complaints from people around the US.  All these are concerning, I told them to close out the account and I will be watching my credit for the next 6 months.   I think this was unethical by both Netspend and the Financial service, due to the fact that I didn’t give the financial services permission to give out my information.   I don’t know if Netspend had my SSN but I didn’t activate the card so I don’t know but I am very concerned by the way Netspend did not keep logs on who and when something like this was done.   If I find out what financial service did this I will be contacting the FTC and BBB over this.   I want to hear if anyone else has had this happened?  I will advise everyone who has this happened to call immediately to close out the account and complain to appropriate people.