Wells Fargo and Other Banks Now Just Outright Stealing People's Money

in money •  8 years ago 

Centuries ago banks actually stored real money (gold) and gave their customers paper receipts which made transferring and transporting easier.

Then as time went by, banks just began storing currency. Unbacked fiat paper is not money.

In those days the term "bank robbery" used to mean a man with a gun would come in and steal the currency from the bank.

Now, in the 21st century, the term "bank robbery" has a completely different meaning. Now, to quote the popular Russian turn of phrase, bank robs you!

What occurred in Cyprus in 2013, was the most overt form of daylight robbery. Over the weekend the banks closed and upon reopening, anyone with substantial funds had approximately 50% less than they previously owned.

Now, banks like Wells Fargo, are just outright defrauding and stealing from people!

Over the past week, the swindlers at Wells Fargo’s were caught engaging in questionable activity yet again and consequently their stock’s value has suffered. The shares took a dip as globalist Warren Buffet’s favorite bank, was fined $185 million for a series of fraudulent actions.

According to reports, since 2011, bank employees have opened 1.5 million bank accounts and "applied" for 565,000 credit cards as well as opened false email accounts - none of which were authorized by their customers.

Part of the fraud lies in the fact that these shady bank workers were transferring funds from their customers existing accounts into the newly created accounts unbeknownst to them, resulting in overdraft fees for insufficient funds in some cases. According to the New York Times, the bank’s employees were incentivized to partake in this illegal activity by compensation policies that rewarded them for opening new accounts. And since bankers never go to prison in the USSA, they must have figured, why not give it a shot?

After all, the US is nothing like Iceland which jailed 29 banksters for their role in the 2008 crash.

The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or CFPB, (the agency presiding over the fining) Richard Cordray, made a statement saying in part that “unchecked incentives can lead to serious consumer harm and that is what happened here.”

Of course the irony of this fiasco is in the fact that the CFPB is part of the largest organized crime syndicate in the world, the United States government. Not only do these thugs steal around around $2 trillion dollars a year from their tax slaves, but the Pentagram also recently admitted that $6.5 trillion dollars was either “misplaced or stolen”. Even $6.5 million or billion is an egregious sum of money to lose, let alone $6.5 Trillion with a “T”.

It was not long ago when we reported on the dubious actions of Deutsche Bank as they refused to make good on their obligations for delivery of physical gold to customers. Aside from that, the bank was also ordered to pay fines amounting to $257 million for doing business with countries under US sanctions at the time. These events have contributed to its poor stock prices, which have plummeted to their lowest levels in 30 years.

What Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo and other commercial banks have been caught for, looks like petty theft when compared to the atrocities committed by the central banks throughout history. In fact most people are not even aware that the value of their money is decreasing through the hidden tax called “inflation”.

We are living in a centrally planned monetary system that it designed to slowly siphon away wealth from its participating victims. Vladimir Lenin knew this and was even quoted as saying, “The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.”

So while many people complacently drink beer and watch football on their widescreen TVs they bought on layaway, their purchasing power and bank accounts are being ransacked by banksters like rats on a sinking ship.

And sometimes, as with the Wells Fargo fraud, the banksters will steal from you and then make sure you know how easy it is for them to get away with their ill-gotten gains.

As this Jubilee Year comes to an end, blatant and outright theft is becoming the order of the day.

What is even crazier, is that they appear to be doing it shamelessly.

It's almost as if they want you to know just how bad things really are - and also to realize you can't do anything about it. This is the same attitude they'll take when the system completely collapses. You may be tempted to complain about your broker or your financial adviser, but doing so won't get you very far.

Yes, you'll probably find plenty of evidence that you've been robbed in the middle of a final financial unraveling, but it won't matter. The whole idea is to make you suffer while making it clear that there is nothing you can do about it.

And this fraud is a good example of that.

What has not been revealed publicly on mainstream television is the fact that Carrie Tolstedt, the executive who spearheaded and ran the group for years, was neither indicted nor penalized by the bank. In fact she walked away with a $120 million severance package. That's right, she was rewarded for her wrongdoing.

In fact, Stephen Gandel, a Wells Fargo spokesperson, said the timing of Tolstedt’s departure was a result of an apparently coincidental “personal decision to retire after 27 years.” Nothing to see here.

From a Fortune article:

Tolstedt ... is walking away from Wells Fargo with a very full bank account—and praise. In the July announcement of her exit, which made no mention of the soon-to-be-settled case, Wells Fargo’s CEO John Stumpf said Tolstedt had been one of the bank’s most important leaders and “a standard-bearer of our culture” and “a champion for our customers.

As we reach the end of this financial and monetary system, the rats are just stealing as much as they can before the ship goes down. It's plain as day.

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You will like this... even the empire suffers under Wells Fargo

Be your own banker with bitcoin!

Swiss Bank Account In Your Pocket anyone?

i like this ...

Bitcoin is a method for criminals to further steal your money. The use of AI to gauge the best methodology to rig markets, pump and dumps, hackers, criminal ICO's, exchanges that rob people, the factor to use this to create a one world luciferian currency and the fact that the UN (with it's IMF) has stated that it will override and control the crypto market, all means "out of the frypan and into the fire". The criminal underworld is linked with corrupt governments and it is strongly advised for the general public to stay clear from crypto's.

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

It's ridiculous that your posts get over 100 upvotes within 4 minutes. Either those upvoters have no idea how curation reward is calculated or they are upvoting bots making sure this post will be near the top of trending page where it is seen for 24 hours and making sure that most of the curation reward goes to the author.

https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/latest-curation-reward-solution

"When people vote early, the curation reward is given to the author. There is very little incentive to vote instantly after a post is made unless you really want to donate your curation reward to the author."

I always catch his posts over in facebook because I set his fbk dollarvigilante page (which has 40,000 followers) and his Anarcast page (which has 11,000 followers) notifications to always show first in my news feed since I really enjoy his perspective and content. He pays money to facebook to run targeted "Sponsored Ads" linking to his new steemit blog posts. That might be why they gets so much attention so quick. If you are not leveraging multiple social media platforms to bring attention an eyes to your steemit blog posts, then perhaps you might want to study and look a little closer at his methods outside of Steemit and apply his techniques to your work as well instead of making false accusations that he must be cheating. I am not a bot. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1338707819474978&id=129995207012918

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

Jeff was getting lots of attention before the promoted posts feature was even available. He got his traction from his Dollar Vigilante followers which I think he said number around 110 thousand visits per month.

Mr. Burwick's YouTube videos about Steemit drew me in and I would imagine many others. I'm still orienting myself to using the site. I understand the crypto-currency aspects, There's no end to videos and talk about that, however, I had not picked up on that finer point of curation. Thanks for posting the link to the @steemitblog, it had not yet occurred to me to look there.

Whats ridiculous is, people arent even reading what this guy is writing because they'd see its an article full of shit backed with his own opinion and sourceless. So many statement and " reports" without a single source stated.

How about I don't care about getting 0.0006 curation rewards or care to try to follow all the twists and turns of the convoluted reward logic. How about I just upvote the content I like and that's it?

Pretty sure it's bots.

I agree, and my brilliant (but minnow) post about the difficulty in posting photos to my blog only attracted 3 votes and 5 comments!

People are trying to make steem money...

I read about this earlier.

And the head of the Community Banking Division still got to keep her $125 million in stock, shares and options.

http://sandrarose.com/2016/09/wells-fargo-banker-over-fake-accounts-unit-retire-with-125-m/

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

More and more tinfoil as usual.

Banks upon deposit give you a paper to sign where it states all the liabilities. If you don't like it then you can exchange gold coins with your friends. Nobody is stopping you

What occurred in Cyprus in 2013, was the most overt form of daylight robbery. Over the weekend the banks closed and upon reopening, anyone with substantial funds had approximately 50% less than they previously owned.

False. Everyone more than 100.000 euros got a haircut. Why? Well because the public treated banks like a gambling firm. The banks ended up paying 7-8% interest on investements. Cyprus was a place of money laundering as well.


Everything else you wrote is just whining. If you don't like the situation in the US then buy land and declare it as mining land. The US. cannot touch you in those premises. You will need special permission to go outside, you get no benefits, no taxes no nothing. So plan carefully.

It is amazing how many couch anarchists that keep whining don't bother to read their own constitution. I guess it is easier to bitch and moan rather than take initiatives.

Ending fearmongering articles with a sales pitch adds so much legitimacy!

By the way, what good are cryptocurrencies going to do anyone when the internet gets shut down like you predicted a couple weeks ago? Why are you selling them as investments if you know they'll be gone in a few weeks?

Were you lying then, or now?

The internet getting shut down? How?

You follow him this close yet you don't trust a word he says?

Anyone who speculates with their money without understanding what they are doing is stupid. Some people take longer than others to learn, and there's very little you can do to stop it happening. Unfortunately the bait is tastier than the warnings.

Now, I think I covered what TDV does, in a post I made recently: riding out past good work and good luck. The articles are not written well beyond having no major spelling errors. But good for him. Sometimes you can't pick the winner all the time, and when you can get a reward just because you got a lot of people's attention in the past, you can't really blame him for doing it. Hell, he doesn't even have to care, people are voting him up cos he's the dollar vigilante! He's just having fun and hoping his exposure gets him more money. Controversy isn't entirely anathema to scoring attention either...

While I am glad that Steem is not a place of censorship, this post reeks of profit based propaganda. But rather than attack the many misrepresented half truths in this article, Ill just say this...
I seriously question a genuine concern for the public when an article lacks any practical information and relys on multiple social account spamming and multiple account jamming to terrify you into buying an "E-Course".
Personally, I have elected to use my freedom to press the little down arrow next to dollarvigilante's name and click mute.

the depth of their depravity amazes me...

Hello DollarVigilante! My first steemit post featured you!

Great article, cheers!

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

I only use cash because I refuse to allow the banks to increase their profits by giving them access to more money to loan.

They pay you 1-2% interest on your funds and then loan it back to you in the form of credit at 5% on home loans, 10% for personal loans, 14.99% on credit cards, the credit cards are the biggest scam imo because usually you have the funds to cover it but you have been taught you need to build your credit to get favorable rates on loans.

It was only a matter of time before the banks said fuck it and just went balls out. $5 - $7 fees to cash a check, $3 atm fees, no longer providing withdraw slips but instead requiring you to write a check to yourself, even the banks hours, these are psychological tactics to keep you away from your money and push you to the convenience of credit.

Sorry for the rant but banks piss me off. Great article by the way.

Wow. Stealing from their own customers... Kinda not surprised but sadly banks should be more trustworthy. I also heard HSBC was laundering funds for the drug cartel. I know that's one bank to avoid for sure.

There are no good banks out there.

Better to avoid banking malfeasance by converting your fiat currency into physical silver and storing it outside the corrupt banking system until confidence is restored.

Keep working, stop paying.
We have to have workers, we don't have to have money.

Is this legal? What can we as depositors do about ?

don't keep money in the bank. It's safer under your mattress. Although everyday it loses it's value so it's not worth saving it. Put it in Bitcoin or other crypto currency.

Once again more evidence that one has to take their own personal financial responsibility more and more into their own hands. That doesn't mean entirely liquidating your own bank account to replace your capital with crypto-currency - but, I think it does mean you need a higher proportion of it now more so than ever of said crypto-currencies (and precious metals, too.)

Diversify, diversify, diversify! Whatever the proportion you choose - the idea that you need to the vast majority of your capital in a conventional bank is now the most dangerous (and risky) idea of all!

Thanks, Jeff.

I see
Thx For Posting

Folks should be like me, bitcoiner. A bitcoiner.

It's crazy how accurate the alternative media is, all the black swans now being reported by the main stream media have been discussed for months by alternative media. How do they keep getting away with covering up scandals until they boil over into full blown tragedies!

It won't take too much more of this kind of thing to start to tip into the elbow of the hockeystick with cryptocurrency. A few more of these kinds of things go on and everyone is going to be like, so, what's the hardest part of crypto? Remembering my password?

The sooner all the bumps to adoption are smoothed over, the better. The less they can steal the better for everyone else.

This has to be the easiest upvote on Steemit today. Always happy to upvote and share with my followers on Twitter Twitter✔. Cheers. Stephen

wow nice, i never know bout bankers never go to jail

I like the drawing!
It says it all!

This literally makes me so bad. It's insane, they are allowed to get away with it. Ugh.

Seems the only way we are going to put an end to this is by boycotting consumerism and fiat currency altogether and going to live in the woods. Who's with me?
Hopefully someone because I don't know how to build a fire... lol

Can I ask you: how is possible to have so much success and still to have time to post here at steemit! Do you have time to upvote other people? Or someone else is doing it for you?

When the bubble burst steem will be next international reserve currency!

I guess if we wanted easy riches, we should have all become bankers (she said, sarcastically).

I had heard this last Saturday. Dr William Mount (YouTube) had quite a bit to say about it. Just one more nail in the USA coffin

Years ago--and I swear I did not imagine or dream this--I read an article about the secretive process of all the gold being carted out of Fort Knox. It had photos from the 1930s, it seems to me, of the loading dock and the trucks and massive stacks of gold bars and the workers who'd been enlisted to operationalize the transfer of all that gold. In my memory it was a Smithsonian magazine, but I can't swear to that. Frankly, I can't swear to anything, because I've never been able to relocate the article.

I must have been in my teens or twenties when that piece was published (that's 20 or 30 years ago now), and I remember thinking to myself way back then that any savings I had was, in essence, going to be worthless whenever someone with power said so...and that the system was utterly rigged. It was a stunning first exposure to the truth.

It's not getting better. Nor will it. You're right about that, @TDV.

The Wells Fargo fiasco is ridiculous. They have been caught multiple times violating anti-discrimination and subprime lending laws, and now this. Granted this was mostly carried out by lower level employees, but it requires a level of stupidity somewhere between the Waterboy and Forrest Gump to believe the banks officers had no knowledge of this. Maybe at the higher levels they didn't as the employees were basically defrauding the bank. But managers had to have known and probably took kickbacks to keep quiet about it.

Wish I had dollarvigilate's following.

@dollarvigilante did you notice that the top stocks yesterday all closed at .77

...and we should have expected something other than theft and extortion from a bank?