[Resolved]  Citibank Credit Card — Harassment & attempt to defraud

I am one of the unfortunate few to posess a CitiBank Credit Card with No.[protected] which has been long discontinued. However, I have not been able to close the account by paying the Total Amount Outstanding against this card due to various reasons. However, I have been paying the Minimum Amount Due (as directed by CitiBank staff) every month.

Recently I was out-of-station and could not pay even this Minimum Amount Due in time.

I am being harassed by CitiBank and various attempts are being made to defraud me in the following ways :

1) The Monthly Statement does not show the Minimum Amount Due nor the Due Date of this Minimum Amount Due. This amount and Date is communicated to me over telephone by CitiBank's staff.
2) When I request CitiBank to send their Executive to my listed address to collect the payment, they fix an appointment but almost every month they fail to keep the appointment.
3) After expiry of the appointed date and time, I receive another call accusing me of not making payment. When informed that it is CitiBank who has failed to keep the appointment, the caller feigns ignorance and claims that there is no such information available in their office that an appointment had been made to collect the payment. This new caller fixes another appountment and this cycle continues till I have to personally call the Collector / Executive and make the payment.
4) even adys after a payment has been made, I keep receiving calls asking me whether I have made the payment. When confirmed, they ask for the payment details like Cheque No., Receipr No. etc. Recently when I checked with CitiBank's Customer Care, I was shocked to learn that all my payment details were clearly recorded in tehir computer system and this information was available to all the so-called CitiBank staff who had been harassing me with phone calls almost daily and at all odd hours (even early in the mrorning waking me from my sleep)
5) Although I have brought all these facts to the attention of CitiBank's Customer Care via E-Mail and they have acknowledged receipt of my complaints, I continue to receive calls from CitiBank rudelydemanding that I pay the Total Amount Due immediately. When asked to specify the Total Amount Due, various callers specify different / varying amounts as the Total Amount Outstanding against my card. When this fact is pointed out to the caller, he / she becomes more rude and starts accusing me of deliberately raising this false issue with the intention of not making the payment.

From the above, the following points arises :
a) Since the Minimum Amount Due nor the the Due Date for making payment of the Minimum Amount Due is NOT MENTIONED in the monthly Statement, how can card-holders be expected to make tis payment and escape penalties etc. ?
b) Why the card holder should be penalised and made to suffer financial losses when CitiBank themselves fail to keep the appointments and collect payments ?
When CitiBank has dailed and neglected to come clean and satisfy me as to the correct Total Amount Due against my card, are they not deliberately attempting to defraud me which is punishable under law ?
c) Why CitiBank should not be punished / hauled-up for blatantly disobeying / ignoring the RBI Guidelines laid down for Credit Card operation by Banks ?
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Aug 14, 2020
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Its your duty to make payments in whats so ever method, you cannot calim fault on a bank for they defaulting the appointments given to you as they deal with lakhs of customers.
But on the other points like they harrase and talk rude and give false Outstanding amounts its the fault on the banks side which can be taken to banking Ombudsman

Citibank Credit Card — FALSE OUTSTANDING PAYMENT

have taken a car loan from your bank i.e. loan a/c no. CEK[protected] whic=
h has been closed vide letter Dt.23.03.2009 as there=A0was no dues on my ab=
ove a/c.but till date i have not received the NOC of the same so that i can=
get the hypothecation cancelled.
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today on contacting the local rep of your bank ANIL VIDYARTHI & ASSOCIATES =
KANPUR it was brought into my notice that your system is showing linking be=
tween car loan and non payment towards my credit card no.[protected]=
09 of rs.23633.00 due to which the NOC has not been issued.
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On the above card there has been=A0NO purchase or expences done of any such=
amount hence give the details of above outstanding amount with documentary=
proofs & release the NOC of my car loan as both matters are different allt=
ogether.

PRATIBHA GUPTA
50-A 3/4 BITHOOR ROAD
KANPUR-1
INDIA
[protected]=0A=0A=0A
I have been victimized by a Citibank scam where they convinced me to pay a reduced monthly payment and not pay my minimum monthly payment. They told me that activity on my account would be frozen and I would be paying down on my balance. I made the payment on time as required by the auto-pay agreement for six, month. When I was done, they had just taken all of the money that I put into this agreement. They told me at the end of the six months that I was only bringing my account current or something like that, but I was only $166 over my available balance and was not late on a payment. They told me that I misunderstood the agreement but obviously I was just misled, because why would I pay more than $700 to bring my account into some sort of good standing when I was not delinquent or much over my limit. I now owe $200 more than what I owed before the agreement.

If anyone has been victimized in the same way, please contact the office of the Comptroller of the Currancey or go to www.helpwithmybank.gov. I have filed a complaint with them as well as the Federal Trade Commission. Both of these agencies can take action, but I'm afraid that people are just lying down and taking this. WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION. These companies think they have free reign to destroy our economy.

Amount refund

Yesterday I booked the bus ticket from plane to Chennai on 8/2/15, booking was cancelled but amount has been detected from my account. Amount : 378 Reference No:[protected]OP0075

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