Originally Posted by
gaspony
I haven't read through the whole thread but here is a data point incase:
I've had two Netspend accounts for about 2 months. Gentle loading and bill pay on each account. About 2000 each account total. Try to log on after a load of $500 each yesterday through debit. There is a problem with my account. I think Man, already?, so I call in and enjoy waiting on hold for about 50 minutes to find that there was an attempt of a log in from another state so they shut down both accounts. I had these two accounts in my mint.com to keep track of them and that is what triggered the fraud alert. They said don't put them in mint unless you want to keep triggering fraud alerts.
Could be relaeted to the Mint system. I've used netspend from overseas across multiple countries in the same week.. no problem.
At times my regular Wells Fargo and TCF bank have failed or errored out but netspend worked from overseas. Problem is NS can cost up to $6 per atm withdrawal. Well worth it.
I'm looking forward to using more NS responsibly for MSing. Hopefully all the complaints from FDIC will force them to think twice about closing down accounts.