credit card applications
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Don H
I got a letter from CITI Bank saying I had applied for their credit card but my application could not be completed because my Credit reports are Frozen. I did not apply for such a card that possibily means someone is trying to use my name. On the other hand maybe it is CITI Bank attempt to get me to apply for their card.
Has anhyone else got similar letters from CITI Bank? I have all my credit beaurals frozen so I am not too conceerned about fruad at this point. |
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Chris
Probably a phishing attempt to get your personal details they need to complete the fraud
From: Don H
Sent: 01 December 2021 21:08 To: chat@nvda.groups.io Subject: [chat] credit card applications
I got a letter from CITI Bank saying I had applied for their credit card but my application could not be completed because my Credit reports are Frozen. I did not apply for such a card that possibily means someone is trying to use my name. On the other hand maybe it is CITI Bank attempt to get me to apply for their card. Has anhyone else got similar letters from CITI Bank? I have all my credit beaurals frozen so I am not too conceerned about fruad at this point.
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Gene
No reputable bank would send such a message to try to get you to get their
card. It would be a good idea to check directly with the bank, don’t use
any link or phone number or anything from the message. there may not be
anything you need do regarding protecting yourself but at least you would know
if the letter is legitimate and if someone is trying to open an account using
your information.
Gene -----Original Message-----
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got a letter from CITI Bank saying I had applied for their credit card but my application could not be completed because my Credit reports are Frozen. I did not apply for such a card that possibily means someone is trying to use my name. On the other hand maybe it is CITI Bank attempt to get me to apply for their card. Has anhyone else got similar letters from CITI Bank? I have all my credit beaurals frozen so I am not too conceerned about fruad at this point. |
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Gene
Unlessit can be determined that the message is not legitimate, I think it
would be a good idea to check directly with the bank.
Gene -----Original Message-----
From: Chris via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2021 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [chat] credit card applications Probably a phishing attempt to get your personal details they need to complete the fraud
From: Don
H
I got a letter from CITI Bank saying I had applied for their credit card but my application could not be completed because my Credit reports are Frozen. I did not apply for such a card that possibily means someone is trying to use my name. On the other hand maybe it is CITI Bank attempt to get me to apply for their card. Has anhyone else got similar letters from CITI Bank? I have all my credit beaurals frozen so I am not too conceerned about fruad at this point.
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Nimer Jaber
Good thing that your credit is frozen. Sounds like identity theft to me. On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 1:08 PM Don H <lmddh50@...> wrote: I got a letter from CITI Bank saying I had applied for their credit card --
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Brian Tew
On the other other hand maybe the email has bad links some hackers want you to click.
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On Dec 1, 2021, at 3:08 PM, Don H <lmddh50@...> wrote:
I got a letter from CITI Bank saying I had applied for their credit card but my application could not be completed because my Credit reports are Frozen. I did not apply for such a card that possibily means someone is trying to use my name. On the other hand maybe it is CITI Bank attempt to get me to apply for their card. Has anhyone else got similar letters from CITI Bank? I have all my credit beaurals frozen so I am not too conceerned about fruad at this point. |
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Don H
This was snail mail not Email.
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On 12/1/2021 4:25 PM, Brian Tew wrote:
On the other other hand maybe the email has bad links some hackers want you to click. |
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Those scams are on the rise.
I get them a lot. The name and email address they came from and going to is usually garbled. Of course my aunt has almost fallen for 1. Did fall for a computer support scam while at work. She did have an actual support claim which took ages to come. Only stopped when they asked her for cash. She got a computer person to fix her stuff. They simply deleted everything and she had to restore from backup but she was at work so it was ok. I had a friend who got one, he was told he had to delete all his hard drives, and his backups and everything else.
Lost everything bar backups he had off sight. If there is an issue, for example my brother had one with american express a message appeared that someone was trying to access his account and they sent him another card. The closest to this you will get is a message or call from the bank saying someone was trying to get in or did get in. They will ask you for your informmation. They will then ask you to physically appear at your bank to confirm and check. But its easy to fall. There are a lot more scams. Gmail often blocks legit mail now spam can get past google's own spam system.
Its the way it is now. Scammers can be anyone. Its fine if you know what to do but unless you want to carry on and waste time I would ignore them.
On 2/12/2021 11:01 am, Gene wrote:
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AAh, well if its postal mail then maybe it is legit and you should ring your bank and ask about it.
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I have had a situation not with bank per say that mail was the only way they could contact me. They asked for my information. I asked them to tell me what they had on file. While most of it was ok, the email and mobile information was out of date by 10 years or so and so I updated them and now it works. On 2/12/2021 11:44 am, Don H wrote:
This was snail mail not Email. |
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Gene
Its probably legitimate, then.
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was snail mail not Email. On 12/1/2021 4:25 PM, Brian Tew wrote: > On the other other hand maybe the email has bad links some hackers want you to click. > > > On Dec 1, 2021, at 3:08 PM, Don H <lmddh50@...> wrote: > > I got a letter from CITI Bank saying I had applied for their credit card but my application could not be completed because my Credit reports are Frozen. I did not apply for such a card that possibily means someone is trying to use my name. On the other hand maybe it is CITI Bank attempt to get me to apply for their card. > Has anhyone else got similar letters from CITI Bank? > I have all my credit beaurals frozen so I am not too conceerned about fruad at this point. > > > > > > > > > > |
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