HDFC Bank Complaints & Reviews

I am Priya, I had taken an Auto loan from HDFC Bank in the month of June 2018. Since then I have been paying the monthly EMIs on time, since from last three years I maintained a handsome amount in my salary account. But, because I lost my job suddenly due to a tragic incident at my place, I was unable to pay the EMI for last two months which is January and February. I had informed the bank that due to this sudden state, I am unable to make the EMIs for now but will be paying them back by the end of this month.

However, even after constantly being in touch with HDFC people, their recovery agents started calling me almost everyday and embarrassing me with their harsh words for not being able to pay back the last two EMIs. Earlier also, I had registered a complaint (ID 2222486) but unfortunately no action has been taken against it by HDFC.

But today, what happened was really harsh on my social image. An executive called somebody that I used to know 6 years back in college. We are not even friends but today that person called me and told me the whole story that an HDFC Executive called him in the morning around 12 and asked if he knew me. I was in his vague memory so he accepted he knew me back then but now we are not in touch. So the executive told him that I have an auto loan running on my account for which I have not paid two EMIs. So, that guy asked him what do I do in this case then? To which, that executive told him that Priya has mentioned your name as one of the guarantors in the loan and If Priya doesn't pay the EMIs, his CIBIL will get spoiled and also a legal action will be taken against you.

Out of concern, that guy found out my number through some connection and informed of this whole scenario and how he got a call from [protected].

My question here is- Isn't this kind of a social harassment, HDFC Bank is giving me in the name of those two EMIs? Even after informing them of my current state and taking their calls timely, they are still degrading my image in public? Is this very derogatory? The moment I received a call from that guy, I was in a state of shock. How did the HDFC executive got that guy's number who I have never talked in these last six years? Does HDFC bank hold the right to leak my personal account details without my permission and intimation to anyone? Or are they trapping and hacking my phone and personal data to get contacts from it and harass me in public? Was I not given this loan after checking and assuring my repaying capacity? Also, is HDFC Bank allowed to lie like this????

This kind of harassment is completely intolerable and illegal. For HDFC bank's reference, I quote a few points from RBI guidelines below:

(iii) Fair Practices in debt collection

(a) In the matter of recovery of dues, banks / NBFCs may ensure that they, as also their agents, adhere to the extant instructions on Fair Practice Code for lenders (circular DBOD. Leg. No. BC. 104 /09.07.007 / 2002–03 dated May 5, 2003) as also IBA’s Code for Collection of dues and repossession of security. In case banks / NBFCs have their own code for collection of dues it should, at the minimum, incorporate all the terms of IBA's Code.

(b) In particular, in regard to appointment of third party agencies for debt collection, it is essential that such agents refrain from action that could damage the integrity and reputation of the bank / NBFC and that they observe strict customer confidentiality. All letters issued by recovery agents must contain the name and address of a responsible senior officer of the card issuing bank whom the customer can contact at his location.

(c) Banks / NBFCs / their agents should not resort to intimidation or harassment of any kind, either verbal or physical, against any person in their debt collection efforts, including acts intended to humiliate publicly or intrude the privacy of the credit card holders’ family members, referees and friends, making threatening and anonymous calls or making false and misleading representations

I want an answer in regards to the mental and social trauma that I had to go through by these HDFC Bank recovery agents.

Please HELP!

I have purchased ornaments from tanishq goyal sons javeri pvt. Ltd., hisar of rs. 100000/- on dates january 7, 2018. At that time there is scheme of 5% cash back by purchase through hdfc dabit card. But till so far i have not received my cash back in my account even though repeatedly visits to my branch. Alka tehlan acc. No. [protected] railway road hisar branch

Sir, i am hari babu from nellore. i took personal loan from hdfc. Due to insufficient funds, my emi payment due on 6th feb by morning, the cheque was bounced . but that itself ie 6th february by evening i have maintaine dsufficient funds. any way when the cheque was presented for the second time, the loan amount was deducted . i have received a message stating that i have to pay Rs.649/- as fine due to late payment. i wanted to pay the same.can you help me to pay the payment.my contact number is [protected]
loan account number : 60570081

Hdfc has levied false credit card charges of rs 22, 000 when i never used the credit card. I went to the home branch to sort out this issue. No help. They sent me to credit card division. At the credit card division they said they could not help and asked me to write an email to grievance redressal. Grievance redressal said that it was for smartpay activation charges for an unknown person's phone number. When i demanded a copy of the application for the activation and questioned the validity of their claim, they sent me a legal notice for rs. 22, 000 which demands payment within 7 days. They refuse to address the issue personally. They only send some vague template emails. This bank has terrible customer service. There is no person to person interaction. They will not accept that there is a mistake on their part.

Iam the ex employee of hdfc life e code..146898 i had sent
Joint declaration form twice to epf department of hdfc life to forward bandra epf office, so far epf bandra office not received attested joint declaration form from hdfc life, no one from epf department is responding towards this query either, so kindly do the needful to know the status of the same...
Mob...[protected]...

Dear Sir,

I have recently gone through my CIBIL score and iam surprised to see that my score is appearing as 1. though i have personal loan from HDFC since March 2018 and I also have credit card from December 2018.

My CUS ID 70862843

My Personal loan is also not mapping on my netbanking, i really dont understand why this is happening.

I urge HDFC bank to please update my CIBIL score and let my loan details be displayed in my net banking.
since i have no late payments in past 1 year how come my cibil can be 1.

Your immediate action is required.

Best Regards,

Syed Saad Makki

I purchased jewellery from tanishq through my hdfc debit card on 12th august 2018. As per running offer i was supposed to get 5% cashback if paid through hdfc credit/debit card. 6 months already passed but till date no cashback received nor any communication is there stating the timeline for cashback.

I have already tried to contact the customer care, but everytime the call gets disconnected after sometime. And no complain has been registered.

Hi, my father was a long term user of hdfc credit card, he got expired recently and i informed the bank and they gave me a reference number and then they didn't follow up for a month two... After which i received a call from a recovery agent stating i have to clear the out standing amount and settle dues for which i requested them to provide me with a suitable settlement option as i can't pay the entire amount by waiving off interest fees...

Today I got a message from HDFC (Insta Alert) that a mandate for Rs.45400 has been issues for IDFC bank with reference no. HDFC[protected] and to me this is illegitimate transaction that is about to happen. I tried to get in touch with your phone banking staff and after waiting for several minutes that call was attended and then disconnected and the next time when I called I talked to a lady who was not only rude but was constantly cutting me while I was explaining my situation.

In a nutshell I have not authorised this transaction and if any such transaction happens HDFC will be responsible for it.

Hi team,

Have cancelled irctc ticket partially from paytm app. And after some days, have received notification from paytm is that refund has been initiated. Now this has been almost more than 2 weeks, still money yet to be refunded in my account.

So raised a complaint with paytm but they updated that refund was initiated from their end but some where it is stuck in bank. So request you to ask hdfc bank how to...

I had a four wheeler auto finance loan account with hdfc bank, chembur, mumbai branch. My loan account no. Is 31795338. I had repaid my full loan amount on 08.03.2018 without any default. I was told by the bank that i will receive my loan closure letter after 3 months that time. After waiting for around 5-6 months when i didn't receive the closure letter upon enquiring the bank told me that the closure letter got returned back to them by post as it seems no one was their at my residence to collect it. So i was told by the bank that now i have to personally visit their branch & collect the closure letter in person. When i visited the branch on 14.02.2019 to collect the closure letter/noc i was told to pay rs. 500/- for issuing duplicate noc. First of all it's a blatant lie that the letter they had send got returned from my door as claimed by the bank because there were no missed you note left by any courier company or the postal department. Secondly i asked them if the original letter got returned to them then where's the question of issuing a duplicate letter is arising, they can handover me the original letter itself. But after a prolong argument as i was running out of time i paid them rs. 500/- & took the closure letter. They were initially denying to give me a receipt for the payment but after threatening them of legal action they gave me receipt bearing no. [protected]. Please look into this as i feel cheated by the bank.

I have been sold a policy from hdfc representative at the bank, the payment was being charged. I haven't got the policy document. There was no communication from the bank for 1 year. Now i got a call from the bank to make the 2nd premium payment. I called the helpline number and they refused to give any information about the policy. The policy document was delivered as per their hdfc life records. I requested the customer care to call on the registered number and give some information about the policy so that i can make the payment, the lady refused. I wrote and email to [protected]@hdfclife.co, they also replied with the same answer that they can reply to the registered id which is not mentioned in the policy so they can not do anything. The just raised an interaction id hdfcsl=[protected]. I am feeling so so harassed by the hdfc life team, can't even explain. Is there any way-out to make them understand the pain they give to the customer. They are not ready to listen that the policy document is delivered to wrong person. They are not giving any information to me. They are not ready to get in touch with me on my registered phone number.
Kindly suggest what should i do? Can i take this matter to consumer court?

Best regards,
Rajeev

Hdfc clearance detp has no right to talk with customer in a rude manner.
Everday they are calling and asking form the pending payment i told them a date but everday they are calling and abusing me.
One of the recording is with me also they will have all my recordings they are not giving me the same
One of the guy i. E ankush sonavne was playing with my words also not answering my question.

As i mentally...

Hi,

Hdfc life staff seem to be only interested in new customers who are ready sign up and least bothered about people who like to surrender. After horrible customer service from hdfclife, i am submitting a complaint here as no one is responding about my policy surrender.
Policy no.: 16643650
Service request no. Is hdfcsl=[protected]
After circulating their office number of times and even after submitting all the required documents, no one is responding to my policy status. Also, they try really hard to convince you to buy a policy in lieu of surrender and if you don't buy one, they don't care to hear your concerns.
Awful customer service and worst experience with the staff. Hope someone is listening to my problem and i get my refund asap.
Contacted through mail and everything but no response.

Best regards,
Baibhav vishal

There is a person in your hdfc bank kanjurmarg collection department named ankush. He called me a few days back if i knew a {xyz} friend and i said yes. Since that day, every time that girl doesn't answer the phone, this man starts calling me and harrasing me and says ask that customer to answer the phone, i am usually at work and i cant take personal calls and this guy doesn't seem to understand. I do not know how my number got into her account and i have no loan / debt with hdfc and i am not appreciating teh phone calls. How do i go about resolving this???

There was a deduction of Rs.1000 from my HDFC bank account while withdrawing cash from ATM. Cash of Rs.1000 did not dispense from the machine, but it got deducted and I got the message alert saying that money is deducted.I waited for nearly an hour but the money was not refunded to my account again .Please consider the request and do the needful.

Name: saurabh satish shetty
Bank : HDFC BANK
IFSC code: HDFC0000016br...

I paid my hdfc credit card bill amount of rupees 8237 on 5 feb 2019 . But i got a mail in next day afternoon that my autopay was initiated and due to non - availability of sufficient funds a payment return fee will be levied to your card account, if applicable. Then i called the hdfc credit card customer care service to complaint about the same. The customer service associate promised me that the amount will not be deducted from my card. But after that amount of rs. 460 has been debited from my credit card and also rs.0.86 has been deducted from my savings account. Why should i pay the return fee as i already cleared the payment in my card. This is unfair and not acceptable. I want my amount back in my account.

I am using hdfc diners club credit card. When this card given to me they informed that there is no membership fee. Then they debited Rs. 1000 and said that my transaction is less than rs. 1 lac.
Again after 8 month they have debited rs. 1000 towards membership fee.
While I am trying to speak with customer care they disconnect phone.
Also they have charged rs. 500 for late fee. While there is no information given to me regarding this.

Bhagwat singh

Hi,

I have tried to contact many times with your customer care, no one cares to attend or do it. I haven't been using my card and some amount is been added to pay. I got this card at the condition of free card, not gonna add any amount but here it is. I received the bill out of nowhere, that I m not going to pay. Please deactivate my card ending with 9873 immediately.

Regards
Akanksha Shakya

Hi
I am from italy i have an account with hdfc bank
My problem is i forget my password to log in
I am requesting to get otp but i am receiving only on my moms phone which is indian phone number but i am not receiving any otp in my email
Whenever i am trying the website is asking me both otp one from the phone and other one from the email,
What i do to log in my account
Help me please
Thank you