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.