ONE WOMAN was horrified after 70 credit cards were issued to strangers in her name without any pushback from her bank.
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The California resident came to the unnerving realization that something was wrong after she randomly received a huge stack of mail in her mailbox, ABC7 reported.
Tina Kumar, the woman who was scammed, found that the stack of envelopes from Chase contained 70 credit cards.
Each envelope had two cards each with her exact account information, but they were all issued to a different name.
The most concerning part for Kumar was the fact that Chase did not notify her of these changes, and they apparently issued the 70 cards without question.
“I’ve never heard of something so outrageous. I’ve never seen something so outrageous,” Kumar told ABC7.
“I was overwhelmed when I saw the envelopes. I didn’t know what was going on. And I’ve been in shock since then.”
As if this wasn’t enough stress, when she called Chase to try and figure out the issue, she realized that she just activated the accounts with her call.
“I panicked,” she told ABC7.
Eventually, she got through to Chase customer service and learned that someone added the 70 names on March 25.
“And I said, well, how can…
