Chase is offering 100,000 credit-card rewards points for new mortgage customers

Don’t do it, folks! Dimon is out to make another quick buck! Smells like 2008!

 The bank is trying to make money off millennial Sapphire credit card holders.

This has to be one of the most expensive ways to pick up some credit-card points.

Chase JPM, -0.28%   announced Monday it is offering 100,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points to its customers who have Sapphire, Sapphire Preferred or Sapphire Reserve credit cards — if they open a mortgage with Chase. The offer will be available through August 6 to customers who had any Chase Sapphire card as of May 7.

Chase’s credit cards have been popular in recent months, particularly the Sapphire Reserve card, which debuted in 2016 and initially offered a 100,000-point sign-up bonus, which was later reduced to 50,000 points. Credit card experts estimate some 900,000 people signed up for that card between September 2016 and November 2016. (Chase has declined to confirm that number.)

As a result, J.P. Morgan chief executive Jamie Dimon said in December the Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card reduced the bank’s profit by $200 million in the fourth quarter, to $300 million. Now, Chase is attempting to capitalize on the young consumers it captured with that card.

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Wells Fargo bogus accounts balloon to 3.5 million: lawyers

Wells Fargo & Co may have opened as many as 3.5 million unauthorized customer accounts, far more than previously estimated, according to lawyers seeking approval of a $142 million settlement over the practice.

The new estimate was provided in a filing late Thursday night in the federal court in San Francisco, and is 1.4 million accounts higher than previously reported by federal regulators, in what became a national scandal.

Keller Rohrback, a law firm for the plaintiff customers, said the higher estimate reflects “public information, negotiations, and confirmatory discovery.”

The Seattle-based firm also said the number “may well be over-inclusive, but provides a reasonable basis on which to estimate a maximum recovery.”

Wells Fargo spokesman Ancel Martinez in an email said the new estimate was “based on a hypothetical scenario” and unverified, and did not reflect “actual unauthorized accounts.”

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