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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: How did Wells Fargo benefit by creating 2 million bogus accounts?
gpt
Wells Fargo, the company, didn't benefit much, if at all.  However, Wells Fargo had monthly quotas of new accounts that their employees had to meet or they were subject to disciplinary action.  Since it's quite difficult for a bank branch employee to generate interest in creating additional accounts (bank branches aren't usually where people make spur-of-the-moment financial decisions), those employees decided to create accounts for customers without their knowledge or consent, in order to meet the quotas that had been set for them.