Complaint Review: Citibank

I must concur with 12/18/02 report filed from Longwood, FL. I too was called by Citibank in December 2002, and told they were the COUNTY SHERIFF's OFFICE asking for verification at my work. When I gave positive verification, I was told by a Ms. Ramos that I was late on a Citibank payment and would be arrested at work. I thought this strange since I am a school teacher with my office not 5 feet from our school's resource officer's office (provided for by our local county sherriff's department).

If an arrest needed to be made, why did they not call our resource officer on the police radio as they usually do? When I confronted Ms. Ramos in her deception she admitted that she worked for Citibank and that she but insisted that she had the right to use our local sherriff department's name. She also called me an "IDIOT" (I think she bacame frustrated when I called her bluff). Before hanging up when I tried to tell her my side of the story, she treatened arrest at work in front of my school children but instead started harrassing my elderly parents for a while.

Now, I am sure you readers want to know why I became behind on my card charges. Since my daughter officially entered the AF August, 2001, my mail has been diverted to Guam (it takes over a month for it to get there). We filled out a mail forwarding form for her mail only but our local post office likes to forward all our mail to Guam. I checked my mail delivery rate -33%). Citibank nicely jacked up my interest rate 24.99%. When out-of-town for work-related studies this summer, mail was not delivered so my financial caretaker did not know to pay this bill.

LET'S HEAR FROM YOU OTHERS OUT THERE & GET A CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST CITIBANK -- THE MISREPRESENTATIVELY FRAUDENT COMPANY!

D.F.
Cleveland, Tennessee
U.S.A.