Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails
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Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails
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Re: Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails
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You can't be serious, like every major site out there will send you an email link with a "password" unique to that user/email that will one-click opt-out. I believe this is due to US regulation, but it's clearly technically implementable and safe.
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I don't think that it's something you know, (the last 4 of your credit card or social security are used for that).
My guess is that they have different email campaigns tied to your bank account, credit card or investment account, etc. This is probably the only way to make sure you don't get any emails from that account.
Re: Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails
#5How about you mark their marketing emails as spam and let them deal with the consequences of that?
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#7I don't understand the issue, from the banks perspective those are basically your username. It's not like they need to trick you into giving them a number they issued you.
EDIT: The only problem I can think of is that it may encourage users to be loose with their info, and therefore be more susceptible to phishing attacks.
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You "fail to see the problem" with a financial institution encouraging insecure handling of CC and acct details? I hope that you don't work for a bank, but somehow I suspect you do.
EDIT: I'll take your deletion as confirmation that you do work for a bank.
Re: Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails
#9How about you mark their marketing emails as spam and let them deal with the consequences of that?
This. Poison their IP blocks in the SPAM RBL so they get the message.
Re: Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails
#10How about you mark their marketing emails as spam and let them deal with the consequences of that?
How many spam reports does it typically take to affect IP reputation?