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Re: Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails

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Post by drdaeman »

raverbashing wrote: post #39
dxgray wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about the users who need to get account related email that they signed up for? I understand your disdain for unwanted email, I share it, but why should our opinions have a negative effect on others.

Banks should send ZERO emails, period. It's not secure for that. I do sometimes get emails from them but they're "useless" (usually a simple notification) Several banks have their own message box inside of Internet Banking.

My bank knows my public key. They could send me an encrypted email... well, except that ciphersuite in subject is GOST, which is not supported by most MUAs, so they don't. So, unfortunately, the key's only used to authenticate me over a TLS connection for a web-based self-care service.

Re: Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails

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Post by w-ll »

midas007 wrote: post #79
rgovind wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its illegal but legal system is so bad that a person who openly swindled 25 billion-dollard in 5 years is going to become a ruler of a province...He will literally buy votes with the money.

The Yes Men could launch Bitvote - vote trading platform using bitcoin

So that Bit-wealthy can control the outcome?

Re: Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails

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midas007 wrote: post #79
rgovind wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its illegal but legal system is so bad that a person who openly swindled 25 billion-dollard in 5 years is going to become a ruler of a province...He will literally buy votes with the money.

The Yes Men could launch Bitvote - vote trading platform using bitcoin

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Re: Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails

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Post by slowdown »

piyush_soni wrote: post #77
jey wrote: post #66

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Which country was this in? India?

Seems yes. These 'credit card' agents employed by the company are generally poor people who are trying to make ends meet (they get some nominal money on every new person signing up for a credit card), and mostly "only" get to too intrusive up to being annoying, but in this case did forgery. The bank might not have anything to do with it though.

The person bugging me was actually the Citibank employee, not the affiliate store staff, thus has a lot to do with Citibank.

Re: Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails

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Post by slowdown »

jey wrote: post #66
slowdown wrote: post #55

Citibank is one of the worst banks I've dealt with. Once, one of their affiliate's employees offered me a Credit Card for free and said "it had no strings attached" and I don't need to do anything to keep it alive. Thought it sounded too good to be true, I bit the bullet and signed up, right on the spot, their affiliate clothing store. Before I was about to submit my documents, it was then I happened to meet a friend…

Which country was this in? India?

Yes, this was in India only. But please don't mistake all of India to be the same, this was a very specific incident and a case concerning a bank with questionable ethics and it's employee, which could likely happen anywhere else in the world.

Re: Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails

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Post by jey »

slowdown wrote: post #87
jey wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which country was this in? India?

Yes, this was in India only. But please don't mistake all of India to be the same, this was a very specific incident and a case concerning a bank with questionable ethics and it's employee, which could likely happen anywhere else in the world.

I was merely asking because this did not align with my experience of Citibank in the US, so I was wondering whether it was a foreign division of Citibank.

FWIW, I'm a Tamil-speaking Indian American. I am aware of the fact that not all of India is the same, but I think the cultural norms do have something to do with this incident.

Re: Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails

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Post by slowdown »

jey wrote: post #88
slowdown wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, this was in India only. But please don't mistake all of India to be the same, this was a very specific incident and a case concerning a bank with questionable ethics and it's employee, which could likely happen anywhere else in the world.

I was merely asking because this did not align with my experience of Citibank in the US, so I was wondering whether it was a foreign division of Citibank. FWIW, I'm a Tamil-speaking Indian American. I am aware of the fact that not all of India is the same, but I think the cultural norms do have something to do with this incident.

Agreed.
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