It happened in a most unusual way to a woman in the Northern California city of Hayward, who found a stunning delivery in her mailbox.
It was troubling — and almost surreal.
This woman suddenly received a stack of mail containing not one or two, but 70 Chase bank credit cards, issued to 70 complete strangers, all on her credit card account. Even more troubling — it never raised a red flag when someone added 70 names to her account. Instead, the bank went ahead and issued all those fraudulent credit cards.
The stack of envelopes arrived all at once in Tina Kumar’s mailbox.
“I’ve never heard of something so outrageous. I’ve never seen something so outrageous,” she said. “I was overwhelmed when I saw the envelopes. I didn’t know what was going on. and I’ve been, like, in shock since then.”
What was most shocking? Each envelope contained two Chase bank credit cards, each with a different name on the front — and her account number on the back.
“This one is Derrick White and Taylor Thompson,” Kumar said as she showed the cards to our sister station, KGO-TV.
“I was just, like, I was really dumbfounded when I saw it. it was just beyond belief,” she said.
Right away she called the number on the cards to find out what was going on, and suddenly realized she’d just activated the account!
For 70 strangers!
“And when I heard that my card was activated then I panicked….
