Armed Forces Bank

I’ve had the card for about 3 years and I’ve never missed a payment. I’ve reached out asking if they would upgrade me to an unsecured card and they’ve refused and were rather rude about it. Then they ding my credit twice in a row with hard inquiries. Might just close the account to force them to give up my deposit.

I became a customer at Ft Knox in 1993. I remained a loyal customer through numerous deployments throughout the world! Even though hard time I trusted AFB with my money and they never let me down. UNTIL they decided to sell out the customer for GREED! In the past year my debit card has been cancelled 2 times and how did I find out by being embarrassed in a line of people with 500 dollars worth of groceries.

First off, they don’t even get a half of star. Been dealing with this bank since 2009, watched it slowly, then recently rapidly decline. Hidden fees unexplained about how the system updates, what time the system updates, who the system updates for? This is getting ridiculous. Posted vs pending transactions, 20$ fee, 60$ overdraft fee for the same item. Customer service is the worst in the banking industry, won’t let you close your account, wanting to charge you more fees, for something that has already cleared? Pending overdraft fee?? I'm thinking class-action lawsuit.

I transferred money from my other acct to AFB on a weekday, they transfer I made could not "post" until midnight. So since it was a weekend I had to wait until Tuesday to transfer the money. Oh, I couldn't transfer the money because I've already exceeded my transfer limit by 13 cents. I called customer service to conduct a wire from my OWN account and MY OWN money, the manager said they cannot override the limit so I had to wait for the following month...I had a 700$ loan with them, I made 16 $85 dollar payments, I still owed 540$ because those payments were for interests...my gosh!!!! DO NOT BANK WITH AFB.

If you have a card stolen you will not be able to get in contact with them because they are closed weekends and holidays! I find one of the question for verification very wrong, seriously who the heck knows when a parent got their social security card, as many people have had their parents get it for them as a child!

This is the worst bank I have ever dealt with.

Went to Luke Air Force Base, Armed Forces Bank (AFB) branch to cash a Fidelity Investment Account check that I wrote to myself for $3000. Manager and senior manager decided AFB WOULD NOT CASH THE CHECK. Best I could do was deposit it and get cash in several day after it cleared. Obviously, I wanted cash immediately or I wouldn’t have travelled 30 miles to go to the brick and mortar bank. I have a checking account with AFB, have been a member of the credit union for maybe 40 years, am a retired Army officer with great credit history (near 800 credit score), plenty of money in my Fidelity account and just needed cash. Further, I view $3000 as a small amount of cash and did not expect AFB to give me any problem cashing this check. Much to my chagrin managers told me no to cashing this check.

I started with AF Bank in 2001 and from 2001 until probably 2010 I was pretty satisfied with AF Bank. My satisfaction with this bank occurred from 2010 until 2021. Over a 24 year Army career, including many years overseas, we never had any problems with our checking account and I was always able to speak with a polite and knowledgeable customer service rep but that changed! Looking back on my 2 decade long experience I would say that the culture of the bank changed. I no longer believe that this bank is looking out for the "Armed Forces" and that they are more interested in charging fees.

This year has been awful for me. I am so thankful for the men and women of this business. Several time I have locked myself out of my phone. No problem (always there to help). Lately I have had attempts of people trying to take money from my account. The Armed Forces Bank personnel worked so very hard to help. To all of the personnel that have helped me. Thank You.

I do not write reviews often, but felt compelled to do so today. I became a member of Armed Forces Bank, on November 17, 2020. I spoke to Mark and Tammi. Both awesome representatives. The opening of my Access Checking and Saving went smoothly. I decided to open a Secured Credit Card the same day. It was processed so fast, that the credit card information appeared on my Credit report on 11/24/2020 and I received the card, later the same day. I kid you not!... I received a notification from Transunion advising Armed Forces Bank Secured Card had been added to my report and it had increased by 40 points. Thank you all so very much for your down to earth demeanor, professionalism and seamless account opening. Today is 11/25/2020. Happy Holidays.