Supposedly personal information for over 2.5 million customers was lost, and Circuit recently notified its members. Also, the letter sent to customers mentions that First North American National Bank was the original issuer of credit for circuit city customers. However, that name doesn't sound familiar. To my knowledge it has always been Chase Bank. Any thoughts?
2006-09-23 10:13:29 · 4 answers · asked by invtork 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Credit
P.s. I'm trying to make sure the letter I received is legitimate, because the letter is requesting my social security number for free monitoring of my credit as a courtesy. It seems to me, that if this is issued by circuti city, they would already have my social. Anyone else get this letter?
2006-09-23 10:22:13 · update #1
Sorry, I didn't hear about this, but I personally got a letter from the US government about a disk being stolen from some guy having to do with US veterans and our personal information. Talk about scaring the crap out of someone. Who knows, as long as they don't ask for personal information from you, don't let it bother you. Circuit City will cover their tails before anything happens. They can't get sued by over 2.5 million customers...it'd kill em.
2006-09-23 10:24:01 · answer #1 · answered by shynomore 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's true.
If you have any doubts about the letter, contact Chase and ask about it.
I went through this with Citi - but all they gave the people was 6 months of credit monitoring (me anyway) Chase is giving people 1 year of free credit monitoring.
First North American National Bank was at one time the underwriter for Circuit City but sold it off in (I think) 2004.
2006-09-23 17:46:07 · answer #2 · answered by echo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i got that letter too!
Don't throw it away, try to take some action.
take the letter to your circuit city. tell them you want to talk to the store manager, or whoever has the highest postition if the store manager is not available. show them the letter and they should know what to do, my circuit city called the bank right then and there, and i got my whole account switched to a new account number just in case something was going on.
Don't reply to the letter and DON'T send anything to them.
its most likely a fraud scam.
2006-09-25 02:01:14 · answer #3 · answered by tahj. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was never notified either
2006-09-23 17:57:20 · answer #4 · answered by Mom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋