I need to ask a favor.
I need someone with one of these accounts to transfer $1 into my account (I will paypal or whatever the money to you first). Explanation below.
I’m currently traveling internationally, and I’m getting eaten alive by ATM fees from Chase. I didn’t think it would be that bad, but it turns out a lot of ATMs have really low withdrawal limits, so it ends up being like a 5% cost to get money :(. I found out that the Schwab checking accounts don’t charge any ATM fees, and even will refund fees charged by other banks. So I opened an account online, but I can’t transfer money into it any faster than a mailed check, except by transfer from another Schwab account holder. They won’t send my ATM card until there’s money in the account.
I will be home for a weekend in a bit over a week, then gone again for a while. I want to pick up the card then, which means I need to get the account funded ASAP so the card will get in the mail and be there when I arrive.
I realize that asking strangers to transfer money to you over the internet and claiming to be out of the country makes this sound like a scam, but hopefully my long post history and the extremely small dollar amount involved will be sufficient evidence that this is on the up and up.
So, can anyone help me out?