A similar thing happened to me about 4 years ago in California. At the time I was running a small business and we had several thousand dollars withdrawn from ou

A similar thing happened to me about 4 years ago in California. At the time I was running a small business and we had several thousand dollars withdrawn from our Wells Fargo Checking account along with a $200 Well Fargo legal fee. After some investigation we discovered that California had sent a notice to Wells Fargo to seize our assets for unpaid taxes. The Wells Fargo legal team was fairly helpful and they told us that 'this happens all the time', meaning the state doesn't really care who they take the money from as long as they get money from somebody. It took us nearly 2 years to prove to the state that they had the wrong business and we we able to recover the money from California. They paid us something like 0.25% interest. We never did get the $200 back from Well Fargo. All of this happened without a single notice or letter from either California or Wells Fargo.