HSBC Horror Stories

CH in Texas said: “HSBC’s telemarketing telephone number 1-800-446-1022 has been calling our home phone number for at least 3 weeks, despite our number being on all “Do Not Call” Registry lists. HSBC calls are harassing. We have reported them to the National Do Not Call list and the PUC yet the calls persist!”

Editor’s […]

Our editors decided to publish the following information: “My name is Sean McGrew, and I’m a Legal Assistant to attorney Dan Bryden, with the law offices of Sprenger + Lang. We are conducting an investigation of Best Buy and HSBC’s “Account Shield” debt cancellation program. In the past, persons have posted on this blog […]

SR in New York said: “Every day, 3 times a day and on the weekends, solicitous continual phone calls from HSBC even though I spoke with supervisors to be removed from their call list continually. This has been going on for a month since I recived a credit card from them. I […]

MP in Kentucky said: “I received a phone call a little over a week ago from HSBC and really i could only understand half of what he was saying because he talked so quickly that i could hardly get in a word edge wise!The deal sounded fairly good to me so i agreed to […]

DD in New York asks: “Every two hours I am getting annoyance calls on my two unpublished numbers from 1 800 446-1022. How do I stop it?”

Answer: You are receiving calls from HSBC telemarketing. You can file a complaint online at the FTC, and they will process your complaint in a timely […]

MM in California said: “I received a phone call touting the debt cancellation service. I agreed to review the service with the right to cancel and get a refund. I reviewed the material, signed the form saying I did not want the service, and mailed it back. They did not cancel or refund […]

This is from another former employee requesting anonymity:
“Having recently left the company on my own accord, you could say that I still very much have my finger on the pulse of the daily operations of the scam machine HFC/Beneficial. Shortly before I left the upper management team approved the use of a new sales tactic […]

The following complaints about HSBC, received from individuals around the country, should be considered as allegations only. We make no effort to investigate the validity of complaints submitted by customers and non-customers. Instead we monitor complaints such as these for trends that can be verified, just as we did before Household International was […]