Thieves
There are a lot of horror stories on here about Onbe. I think mine takes the cake…
I have HPI and HPE spiff Mastercards, both had money on them. The cards get stolen and I call them on 6/15/25 to report the cards stolen, and to get new cards issued. New cards are sent out, and I deposit new funds, and am waiting for my old funds to carry over. Not only do my funds not carry over from the old cards, the new funds are not on the cards.
Over the next two months I spend several hours over at least 10 separate phone calls trying to get to the bottom of this. I speak to various people in an overseas call center that can't explain what is happening. Every time I ask to speak with someone in the US that can fix this, they inform me no one in the US I can speak to. After two months, one of these people sends me the statement of charges on both cards and I can see what happened.
Instead of cancelling the cards, and carrying funds over to the new cards, along with the new deposits, they left the cards active and deposited the new funds to the cards that were stolen. Worse still, the fraudulent charges that cleared out all the original money and later deposits happened 1-2 months AFTER I cancelled the cards. Also, all these charges happened in another state, and were clearly fraud that any Mastercard issuer should have picked up on if there were actually doing fraud prevention.
When I called them back for the 11th or 12th time to explain this, they told me I had to fill out a fraud claim - on cards I cancelled more than a month before the fraud occurred. I asked for the phone number of the fraud department - like every other Mastercard or Visa issuer has, and was told they don't have one, and I would have to mail something or fax them. I asked them why a bank issued card doesn't have a fraud number to call, and they told me they aren't a bank (they are a bank).
I don’t know if I'll get my money back, but I will sure reach out to HPI and HPE to let them know what kind of crooks are running their spiff program. Also, I'm pretty sure none of this adheres to their ToS with Mastercard, but we'll find out when I call them.
If you work for a company looking to issue spiff or gift cards DO NOT use Onbe, North Lane or Sunrise Banks (their various pseudonyms). They are crooks and terribly incompetent; it will end badly for you if you use them.
June 15, 2025
Unprompted review