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plaints about banks. In all, there are 83 pages dedicated to complaints about Wachovia alone.

One woman, identified only as Lisa from Baltimore, said she made a deposit, then wrote several checks, thinking the money would be available.

For some reason, she said, the bank held the deposit for 11 days. She did not find out until she went to the ATM and found out her account was overdrawn by more than $700. That amount included $245 in fees for unavailable funds, she claimed.

However, the ire is not directed solely at Wachovia.

Another man, John of Clayton, N.C., claimed that BB&T is “clearing debit cards, checks and other drafts from the account first, and holding deposited funds until the next morning solely so they can charge $35 [fees for non sufficient funds].”

He alleged that the bank charged him $700 in fees in one month. The bank refunded only $290, he said.

“This is predatory, unfair and nothing more than BB&T trying to steal from

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