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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jennifer L White<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 17, 2023 2:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Chase Bank<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Wendy,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Recently I had a client who also ended up having a really bad experience at the branch level with Chase. What they did was really out of line and the responses they kept giving
my client were legally ridiculous. The branch manager was terrible and seemed to be the one giving my client the most grief (undeservedly). I wrote a not so nice and very pointed letter about what they were doing badly and what I wanted to see done for the
client to rectify the matter. I emailed it to the branch manager, but cc’d the big, big boss – Jamie Dimon (his email is on the Chase website). I, of course, did it tongue in cheek and did not expect any response from anyone up the chain. I only did it to
try and shame the incorrigible manager who was causing my client so much trouble. Much to my surprise, I started getting pretty quick communications from a higher level, and the situation got resolved satisfactorily.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Script MT Bold"">Jennifer L. White, Esq.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif">2200 S 76<sup>th</sup> Ave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Katie Smith Patel<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 17, 2023 1:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Chase Bank<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;background:white">Send a cordial, brief email to this address:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#222222;background:white"><a href="mailto:peter.j.neilson@jpmchase.com">peter.j.neilson@jpmchase.com</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;background:white">Peter Neilson is the global head of financial crimes for Chase Bank. Title your email subject line, “Complaint” or somewhere prominently use the word “complaint”
specifically to trigger statutory complaint handling processes. Explain briefly that you believe that their fraud or anti-money laundering controls have failed.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;background:white">Something similar happened to me with Chase Bank a few years ago. I emailed Peter Neilson and I imagine he forwarded it down the chain until it got to someone
who gasped, “this came from… PETER!” and immediately acted on it. My husband had just opened our account with his contact information, and yet I am the one who received an apologetic call 2 days after my email that everything was henceforth fixed.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;background:white">Ironically, I used to work in anti-money laundering and fraud compliance. Large financial institutions have a lot of behind-the-scenes and automated processes
to handle the large volume of potential suspicious activity. I perceived that Chase’s anti-money laundering alert reviews are handled off shore in countries with cheaper, but not necessarily better, labor. Anti-money laundering regulations will prohibit
them from telling you what their suspicions are based on whatever alert was triggered. What will happen is an alert is triggered based on whatever parameters are set, someone off shore reviews it but doesn’t do their job properly and the next thing you know,
your account is frozen and they can’t tell you anything about why, leaving you helpless with no channels for recourse. Chase’s alert threshold seems to be set very low. All we did was transfer $100 into the account twice and they froze the account and wouldn’t
tell us why. Fortunately I knew: somebody incompetent skipped through their alerts that day.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;background:white">Getting someone higher up to pass it down to them worked for me; hopefully it will work for your client.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black;background:white">Best of luck, and I am happy to help answer any additional questions that arise as you try to resolve this.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Katie Patel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Paraclete Estate Planning, LLC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">(323) 356-4886<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
<a href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a> <<a href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Joshua McKarcher<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 17, 2023 11:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Chase Bank<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have precisely one contact at a Chase branch who has proven heroic . . . but three years ago. If she replies to my email, she would do whatever she would be able to do, if anything. I’m so sorry for what I’m reading below; it just shouldn’t
“be like this,” but somehow it is. For whatever it’s worth, I had a PR client deposit also a CASHIER’S CHECK from Wells Fargo to fund a new estate account at US BANK, and the latter put a 5-day hold on the new account as well. Here I thought certified funds
were basically as good as wired funds, but silly me, no. They would not even call the branch – both are in our small area here, mere miles apart – and confirm funds or any of that stuff from “the old days.” Such is our world, even in the age of e-checks and
instant verification of accounts via Plaid and “all of it.” Alas . . .<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best, Josh <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Joshua D. McKarcher<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">McKarcher Law PLLC<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(509) 758-3345<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(509) 758-3314 (fax)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:josh@mckarcherlaw.com"><span style="color:#0086F0">josh@mckarcherlaw.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Goffe, Wendy S.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 15, 2023 1:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] Chase Bank<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I am trying to help a retired professor from the University of Washington. He is elderly and the treatment he has received from Chase is absolutely appalling and likely race
based. He opened an account in Normandy Park, closed his credit union account, and deposited a cashier’s check into the new Chase Account. He wrote a few checks, all of which bounced and was told there was a 2 week hold on his account because of the appearance
of possible fraud. At the end of 2 weeks re re-wrote the checks and they again bounced. He was told they extended the hold for 2 more weeks. He is in the middle of a remodel and can’t pay the people he has hired. They have stopped work. He has never bounced
a check in his life and is beside himself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">He called the escalation unit and they sent it back to the branch. Does anyone know a person I can call who might be able to straighten this out?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Wendy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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