August 2016 by Inem C.
On August 5 these guys scammed me big time! Was in a loooong line at Walmart Money center to cash a check. A man dressed in the standard blue shirt and tan pants walk up the line asking if anyone was just cashing a check. I said yes and he said he could help me right over here and we began walking toward the registers, then suddenly he turned toward the bank. I dont have an account I explained. You dont need one he said. At this point I figured they must just be making some odd adjustments for the unusually long line. I was right and wrong. Guy was not a Walmart employee, he was just dressed like one. Says for just a dollar today you can open an account and cash check no charge, save $3 every 2 weeks. Are there monthly charges? No. Are there fees if I decide to never use the account again? No. So I can just do nothing but put a dollar in an account and cash checks free every two weeks? Yes. How do the bank make its money? Well like if you overdraft or use other banks atms and loans. So do you have anything in writing I can read? Yea, heres a website. I ask all the questions in other ways again and get the same answers and being in a hurry, needing the cash, not having time now re enter the Walmart line I signed up even though I was frustrated they had nothing I could read first. Got my cash, did some research, sure enough all sorts of monthly fees unless you do this that or the other. Shame on me for being caught up in a desperate rush I guess. I would single out the employee except he "double checked" his answers with another teller and his supervisor and they also said no fees. Sad thing is the account fees are fair and I have direct deposit so that will eliminate them. I would have opened the account with the TRUTH. My wife went in that night and was attended to by a more grown up blond lady who was up front with everything and gave us some very helpful tips. I was attended by her yesterday, I asked her some questions too. She is just honest and helpful. It is a shame most of the employees at this location are not.
