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Wells Fargo Admits To Nearly Twice As Many Possible Fake Accounts — 3.5 Million

This revelation of more potentially unauthorized accounts will likely ratchet up the congressional and regulatory scrutiny Wells Fargo already faces. / Matt Rourke / Shutterstock.com

Wells Fargo just can't get past its fake account scandal.

On Thursday, the bank acknowledged it had created more bogus customer accounts than previously estimated. An outside review discovered that 1.4 million more potentially unauthorized accounts were opened between January 2009 and September 2016.

That brings the total to 3.5 million potentially fake accounts — two-thirds more than the

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