Got a call on 2/17/2009. Recording said Citizen's Bank. Called them next day, said there was unusual activity on my account. Someone charged plane tickets to Tunisia, $800 to the New York Times and other charges. Got home and found out that the wife's coworker had the same thing happened to her. She said Citizen Bank was hacked into, anyone hear of this?
I just received the same call. Regarding a card that I lost months ago. When I said I no longer had the card and asked who it was again, the call hung up. As it happens, I work for the institution that they supposedly called me from.
I got suspicious when they left me a voicemail about my citizens card having suspicious activity on it. I decided to call the number on the back of my card and the guy told me that many people have been calling about this number and that it is a scam. Don't call them back!!!
They called me too. I didn't answer. After listening to the message, I checked my account, looked normal. Then looked up the phone number, which brought me here. I am not even going to try to call them back. I'm going to go to my bank tomorrow and play the message for them. Hopefully they will assure me that I will stay protected.
Part of a fraud campaign targeting numerous financial institutions. Note the pattern of shill postings all claiming the number is real - an obvious giveaway.
The large number of phony posts claiming the call is real come from some con artists spamming the site to try to fool people. There is a similar pattern to other fake calls claiming to be from Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, US Bank, Wells Fargo, RBC, PayPal, etc. all with the same shill postings: