said by fkd :... I know there is no branches of BofA because the bank officer I worked when opening the account told me. But I found that there were a branch here few years ago. Sorry my comment doesn't clearly say that!
I opened my bank account when I was in US. So, all my references, and mail records point to things that consider account holder is a US resident (or more specifically, the acct holder should have a SSN). That certainly wasn't the case when opening an account. We can of course sort things out when we go to US again, but until then? I implicitly said I created this account in US in previous comments. Read "It seems it's quite impossible for foreign nationals (wrt. USA) with no branches of the bank in the country to reset password..." and the para starting with "...opening bank accounts with BofA by foreigners..."
Forgive me for my stupid question. But, does this forum has security measures that makes registered 'new' members more trustful than anon users? Some guy already posted my ip details.
PS: I don't have a need to contact them anymore, but I would have if I needed because I had enough time these days.
Had you shared all that at the very outset, perhaps the reactions here would have been more... uhmm, "user friendly"? In any case, I doubt that you would have gotten much information about password structure regardless, since your story would be impossible for those here to verify, thus impossible to distinguish from some script-kiddie out fishing for cracking info.
With regard to this security forum (and probably most others), anonymous and new-member posts are viewed with a measure of scepticism since
anyone can post or sign up with no real verification trail (other than IP and an eMail address). If one is a longer-term member, that at least provides a measure of stability and a mild assurance the user is not as likely to be a spur-of-the-moment kiddie, out to hack some target that's just caught his interest.
As far as somebody publishing your IP info here, that info is public record and accessible by anyone via a simple 'whois' check on the web, and the IP itself appears below all anonymous posting icons on every forum post. And, while even an IP can be (and often is) spoofed by a hacker, it did make the poster's point that something was suspicious about your post, given that you were asking for password info on the Bank of
America from an IP well outside the US.
At this point, my advice to you would have been to send a certified/registered letter to BOA headquarters, explaining your account information and asking for contact information. But, as you've noted, "I don't have a need to contact them anymore," so the only remaining question in my mind might be why you ran this thread in the first place...?