You're right . . . For some reason WF has the nicest bankers there . . . When my account number was stolen they really helped me out . . . Unfortunatly, they said they couldn't just close the account because there were pending transactions, so the person that stole my account number kept using and using . . . They credited all the NSF fees with no problems, but then the loss prevention people noticed all the credits, thought I was in with a banker to scam them out of money, and froze my 4 other accounts I had with them with no warning. I went to use my card and it didn't work. I was one of the lucky ones, since I'd been in so much trying to clean up the ID theft, they knew me there and knew my money in my good accounts was clean. So they went offline and let me withdraw my money. If they hadn't known me it would've been weeks before I'd been able to access my money.
There are much safer options then going the second chance checking route at some of the big banks. As I've mentioned in another post, if you want a list of banks that you can still get an account at if your on chexsystems, please PM me with your state and I will send you a list. Most of these banks will pull credit reports or verify through telecheck, so they won't even know you've been blacklisted from another bank.