WELLS FARGO & COMPANY Complaints
bankWells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company and one of the largest banks in the United States, offering banking, mortgage, investment, and credit services. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and was founded in 1852 by Henry Wells and William Fargo to provide banking and express services during the California Gold Rush.
333 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
WELLS FARGO & COMPANY recorded 430 complaints this week, compared with an 8-week baseline average of 409.8 per week. This is 1.0x its own 8-week baseline, a status labeled Near baseline. Its top complaint products this week were Checking or savings account (211), Credit card (76), and Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports (59). It ranked 3 of 14 among banks by spike ratio, compared with an average spike ratio of 0.9 across all tracked banks this week.
Category average spike ratio this week (banks): 0.9x — see the full category ranking.
12-week complaint volume
Week ending 2026-06-09 through 2026-08-25 (14-day lag buffer applied).
Top complaint products this week
Responsiveness & resolution this week
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"Public response rate" counts only complaints where CFPB asked the company to respond publicly, and measures how often it said something substantive instead of declining to comment — see How it works.
What customers are saying
500 narratives, 2026-06-01 to 2026-06-30 (narrative text lags ~70 days behind the base complaint record — see How it works). Word size = relative frequency (square-root scaled, so no single word dominates).
Exact counts
| # | Word | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | year | 569 |
| 2 | card | 531 |
| 3 | credit | 502 |
| 4 | claim | 476 |
| 5 | fraud | 377 |
| 6 | funds | 358 |
| 7 | received | 356 |
| 8 | transaction | 335 |
| 9 | dispute | 331 |
| 10 | complaint | 316 |
| 11 | check | 316 |
| 12 | payment | 307 |
| 13 | money | 305 |
| 14 | information | 285 |
| 15 | time | 284 |
| 16 | balance | 269 |
| 17 | transactions | 263 |
| 18 | provide | 257 |
| 19 | call | 255 |
| 20 | investigation | 253 |
| 21 | number | 253 |
| 22 | unauthorized | 251 |
| 23 | provided | 243 |
| 24 | phone | 238 |
| 25 | request | 237 |
| 26 | fees | 230 |
| 27 | can | 224 |
| 28 | regarding | 223 |
| 29 | made | 221 |
| 30 | service | 220 |
| 31 | branch | 209 |
| 32 | review | 208 |
| 33 | amount | 207 |
| 34 | customer | 204 |
| 35 | business | 204 |
| 36 | case | 203 |
| 37 | without | 200 |
| 38 | charges | 200 |
| 39 | transfer | 197 |
| 40 | issue | 197 |
Where complaints go: product → issue → outcome
Last 90 days, 5,320 complaints. Two stages shown separately (not joined into one three-way table) because the issue→outcome counts are already combined across every product sharing that issue — see How it works.
Product → Issue
| Product | Issue | Complaints |
|---|---|---|
| Checking or savings account | Managing an account | 1,456 |
| Other | Other | 877 |
| Checking or savings account | Other | 581 |
| Credit card | Other | 437 |
| Checking or savings account | Problem with a lender or other company charging your account | 379 |
| Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports | Incorrect information on your report | 375 |
| Credit card | Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | 316 |
| Debt collection | Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | 243 |
| Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports | Improper use of your report | 184 |
| Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports | Other | 175 |
| Debt collection | Attempts to collect debt not owed | 121 |
| Credit card | Other features, terms, or problems | 119 |
| Debt collection | Other | 57 |
Issue → Company response
| Issue | Response | Complaints |
|---|---|---|
| Other | Other | 2,127 |
| Managing an account | Closed with explanation | 1,026 |
| Incorrect information on your report | Closed with explanation | 271 |
| Problem with a lender or other company charging your account | Closed with explanation | 270 |
| Managing an account | In progress | 226 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | Closed with explanation | 219 |
| Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | Closed with explanation | 201 |
| Managing an account | Closed with monetary relief | 136 |
| Improper use of your report | Closed with explanation | 117 |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | Closed with explanation | 89 |
| Other features, terms, or problems | Closed with explanation | 82 |
| Incorrect information on your report | Closed with non-monetary relief | 79 |
| Managing an account | Other | 68 |
| Problem with a lender or other company charging your account | In progress | 62 |
| Improper use of your report | Closed with non-monetary relief | 53 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | In progress | 49 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | Closed with monetary relief | 40 |
| Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | Closed with non-monetary relief | 37 |
| Problem with a lender or other company charging your account | Closed with monetary relief | 35 |
| Incorrect information on your report | In progress | 23 |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | Closed with non-monetary relief | 22 |
| Other features, terms, or problems | Closed with non-monetary relief | 16 |
| Improper use of your report | In progress | 14 |
| Other features, terms, or problems | In progress | 13 |
| Problem with a lender or other company charging your account | Other | 12 |
| Attempts to collect debt not owed | In progress | 10 |
| Problem with a purchase shown on your statement | Other | 8 |
| Other features, terms, or problems | Other | 8 |
| Took or threatened to take negative or legal action | In progress | 5 |
| Incorrect information on your report | Other | 2 |