A few days ago, I took my friend to see my personal banker at WF to open an account. He told my personal banker that he is expecting a wire transfer for a few million dollars. She then called her colleague who handles up to a million dollar client to open a special account for him. We were in the bank for a couple hours, asked a lot of questions. They know where the transfer coming from and they didn't deny nor saying anything negative. In fact, they wanted us to meet with WM right away. They were saying they have different dept that handles over 1M+ and basically red carpet treatment. We declined and said we will meet with WM when the transfer is in. They told us they also offer multi currency account, black visa card, given a special number to do the banking, assign a personal banker to take care of us and they told us that the account will have special yellow screen that a regular teller can't have access, even personal banker will need a permission from WM to go into our account while we are there. One more thing, they opened his account without asking for any deposit. When we asked, we were told not to worry and they will watch our accounts. My friend didn't feel right, he put $100 in it
I have known in the last three months of people doing private exchanges. It’s a matter of who you know and what connection you have with the one in the know. Wells Fargo is involved.