seunnuga:
This is no scam.
It's purely leveraging on BVN database which I think all banks have access to. Your BVN record contains your Names, phone number, Bank accounts, and Picture. The only thing that may be wrong was creating bank accounts without the knowledge of the person and as an IT guy, I know your account can be created on request via the USSD code.
They were just trying to be "Technologically" Smart and proactive such that with the use of a USSD code, you can have an account created without stepping into the halls of the bank.

gypsey:
If you noticed an Account have been opened in your name, Go to GTB, complain and close the Account. simple!!

princeakinola1:
Somebody that have you details on your behave,in other to collect 100naira,so is not gtbank or scam,it's real,i did the same thing for my wife

oluplus:
This is unacceptable. Well Fargo bank in USA did something similar by opening unsolicited additional accounts for their existing customers. Case was taken up by the Regulators and they were fined heavily. It is not just right
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-09-09/wells-fargo-opened-a-couple-million-fake-accounts

9jaPromo:
Dey do pay 100 for each customer u bring....
It's real

U1:


If the N450 charge was true, I'd say you didn't do enough to have it refunded. You can report them to the CBN, if you think you did enough to try and get your money back. Cost per SMS is N4, does it mean they sent you more that 100 SMSes in one month? No bank dare try that with me.

As for those whom accounts were opened for without requesting, simply contact the bank to close those accounts, report to the CBN or sue it! It's simple, isn't it? Many Nigerians fail to take action when they need to, preferring to just make noise to themselves. This is one of the reasons evil seems to be on the rise in the country.

But it's surprising to see some complaints about GTB, though. I opened my first bank account with this bank and the experience - overall - has been the best, compared to the others I have (had) accounts with.

BetaJobNG:



GTB is paying customers #100 for reffering a customer to open account. So, someone somewhere just opened an account for you to get #100

tk4rd:
@Bolded..
Even if it is not a security breach, it is a Privacy Breach..
I should choose the institutions I bank or do transactions with.
I never signed any third-party agreement when I enrolled for BVN,, did I.??
Ooh, and if they got my data through my BVN, why then are they telling me to submit my BVN again since they already have it?
..
I don't believe they got my data through BVN.

tk4rd:
I did.
I went to the bank.. And I met with their customer care..
And yes, they accepted that they opened the account for me in my name, and intended it to be my account, and for me to use it as my account.
But then, they couldn't explain how they got my number and my name. They also couldn't explain why they opened the account, and what purpose the account should serve me.
They were just busy trying to preach to me so that I can accept the account.. That's All

Amyyy2020:


Exactly wat I'm thinking poo. But what about his BVN and signature too...those two esp d latter has to cone from him na

DBlackCeazer:
can I open one from outside Nigeria, and would I ve access to online banking?

tk4rd:
They refused to close the account..
So, it's not as simple as you are trying to put it.

Nitah1:
This bank is scamming customers somehow...... just wakeup one day and N450 disappeared from my account,remember is student account.


I was angry....got to bank only to be told is SMS charges, just last week it's happened again.





What SMS is that?

Answer me since you are their advocate?

mainman7:

Only very very few gullible senseless Yorubas that follows anything Igbos say to make them destroy Yoruba success. What hurts Igbos most in this life is to see Yorubas shine. With perfect hatred, they hate to see Yorubas shine. They are subconsciously green with incurable envy of Yorubas, so, they tell other tribes very slanderous derogatory things about the Yorubas They never say a single good thing about Yorubas even though they are far more evil, less intelligent and greedy than the Yorubas. Igbos should naturally accept that God created Yorubas to be superior to them. They should just bow to us so that Nigeria can move forward. Igbos are the most selfish shallow-minded sad Souls on Earth. Igbos still don't realize that Yorubas are not ordinary beings.

Intelligent Yorubas have now understand why Igbos are forever pained. The pathological hatred that Igbos have towards Yorubas is unconsciously because Yorubas have naturally first achieved and still achieving every Greatness that Igbos hope to achieve in this Life: they stigmatized and spread lies that Yorubas are cowards, yet we gallantly won the 1635 Oshogo War against the Fulanis (something that Igbos can never achieve). They said we are not strong to fight yet we've produced the likes of Anthony Joshua the Strongest Man in the World for a while now, something no Igbo has ever and shall never achieve. Imagine if Olufemi was Igbo, we won't have rest from their shout of "Igbo Amaka" since all his winnings. Igbos started businesses hoping to produce the richest man and woman, yet non of them is as rich as Adenuga or Alakija. They started Churches, yet non of theirs could ever be as Great as that of Oyedepo or Adeboye. Igbos tried to top the Education sector and had to abandon that dream because Yorubas are the ones intelligent enough not only to lead that but lecture as numerous Professors in USA Universities and all over Europe Universities. Nigerian Ecommerce Crown belongs to Sola Akinlade of PayStack, Biggest Nigerian Forum owned by my Guy grin the great Yoruba son of Oshewa. Igbos started Arochukwu Cult, yet non of them could ever be as International as Ogboni. I don't know a single Yoruba man that belong to Arochukwu, but Igbos have no option than to bow to Yoruba superiority as many of them have joined Yoruba Ogboni Fraternity. We Yorubas are simply the most superior beings on Earth. They should stop fighting the natural truth. When they accept us as their superior, Africa would then naturally rule the World. It is the birth right of Africa to rule the World. God made it so. THERE IS A MYSTERY BEHIND YORUBAS THAT NON CAN UNRAVEL.

Igbos are the worst satanic ingrates in the World, they are never grateful for accommodating or showing them love. Yorubas should know that the only way they'll get their well deserved respect from Igbos is not by showing them love, but by treating them like Northerners do. The more you show Igbos love the more they'll disrespect and hate you. The only language they understand is to kill them and treat them without iota of mercy. Unlike HausaFulani that regularly slaughter them like chickens, we Yorubas accommodate them on our Lands as brothers but they are always enviously plotting evil against us and spreading slanderous derogatory lies about us.
Some intelligent NLander Yoruba guys and I were discussing Igbo/Yoruba observed stuffs and we came to one conclusion that some igbos were applying 48 Laws Power rules to brainwash gullible Yorubas here. Last year, they started derogatorily calling and generalizing all Yorubas as Afonjas when we were known as Awoists since my earliest times on NairaLand. They know you soon take on the Character of the name you accept. Before this igbos started this nonsense, we on NL know ourselves as Awoists portraying the great Awolowo values. Just like the igbos planned and hoped, now some gullible easily brainwashed Yorubas go like "we Afonjas are the best" Everybodys know that Awolowo died of natural cardiac ailment at the ripe old age of 78 years old(how many of those spreading the lie against him would even reach 70) till few year ago when this satanic Igbos invented suicude lie and started spreading the slanderous derogatory lie to posthumously strip him of well-deserved glory. Any igbo that calls we Yorubas afonja again instead of Awoists shall soon die a painful death!

Next time you see a Yoruba, duff your hat and bow!

If you quote me again, an uncontrollably bad runny stomach would catch you in church, I for say at work, but u seem like an unemployable individual, so let's leave it to Church

EmmyDJourno:


If you quote me again, an uncontrollably bad runny stomach would catch you in church, I for say at work, but u seem like an unemployable individual, so let's leave it to Church

tk4rd:
They refused to close the account..
So, it's not as simple as you are trying to put it.

EmmyDJourno:


Yes you can open one from outside Nigeria, and do online transactions. I have opened such accounts for family and friends, it has been helpful to them

My WhatsApp number is 07033526572...Emeka is my name, or send me a mail ohagwuc@accessbankplc.com

muyinet:


Then don't use the account.
I can't see any reason to be worried