Location/place: Chennai
I am Kathiravan Purushothaman and I am holding a SBI Platinum Credit Card since Dec 2009. I am one of the happiest and satisfied customers of SBI card so far.
As of last Dec 2012, I didn’t have any issue or disputes or dissatisfaction with SBI card. But to my shock something happened on 17th Dec 2012 by which I was totally confused, shocked and have no idea on the reliability and saftey of the card. This is due to two fraudulent online transactions which were made on my SBI Credit card on 17th Dec 2012.
I had taken all genuine, available, permissible and possible precautions from my end for the card and have not revealed any data of the card to anybody. I have insta email alert and insta mobile alert activated on my credit card for safety measures. Moreover I had used the card for my transactions with only respected and reputed establishments offline and also made online transactions only with trusted online sites.
I had already brought to SBI notice about the fraudulent transactions made on my Credit Card to SBI personal at the earliest and I have blocked the card immediately. Below is the exact details of what happened and what action taken by me on this.
Name – Kathiravan Purushothaman
CC No – xxxx xxxx xxxx 8608
– On 17th Dec 2012 midnight I got two SMS stating that two transactions (in Ruble – Russian currency) were made for amounts of Rs.56, 418.94 and 10,070.21. The time I got the SMS on my registered mobile is 18th Dec 2012 at 00.30 AM and 18th Dec 2012 at 00.33 AM. As you see I enabled the Insta Alert and email options to make sure the card is not misused by anyone.
– I immediately called SBI call center at your given number 044-39 02 02 02 on the SBI card at 00.40 A.M on 18th Dec 2012 and informed your personal about this fraud transaction and asked them to stop the payment for these transactions. I followed this as per the instructions given by you in the terms and conditions. And I clearly told them to take appropriate steps immedaitely to stop the payment as it is in foreign currency. If they could have taken some action immediately to intimate appropriate people this fraudulent transaction would have been stopped.
– But I was told by them that they will not able to do anything at that time and only after the VISA processing they can take the complaint on this. And they asked me to wait for 3 days and then send the Dispute form filled with transaction details.
– I asked them to immediately block my card and they blocked the card immediately at 00.40 AM on 18th Dec 2012. And they confirmed me that they blocked my card.
– As per instructions from SBI personal, I filled the Dispute form with the details and mailed to their id [email protected] on 20-Dec-2012.
– On 20-Dec-2012 I received mail from the [email protected] stating that they received the dispute transaction form and they are working on it and they will get back to me after 3 days. The mail reference they gave me is ‘CaseID=006-219-360’. They also mailed me that it will take about 120 Days to close the investigation.
– I contacted SBI again on 28-Dec-2012 by mail requesting for status on this. But there was no response.
– I contacted SBI again on 31-Dec-2012 over your call center and they informed me that they did not process the form for some reasons ( she also don’t know why it’s not processed) and she took a complaint and gave a Request number – MQ 0113660026686 and told me it will take another 3 days to get back to me. But as of today I didn’t receive any update from anyone from SBI. This was a shock to me how the SBI service people can be so careless on this and I really doubt if they had really started any investigation on my case.
– They also told me that when I get bill if these disputed amount if it appears I can deduct that and pay the remaining amount. This was told by the call center person who spoke to me and I was bit relieved.
– On 15-Jan-2013 I received SMS and mail stating that the Credit card bill has been generated. When I went and checked the details I noticed that these disputed transactions were also charged.
– I immediately called SBI Call center to get the current status of the case. It was shock to me that they closed the case and they told me that these transactions are made over online and they are not responsible and I need to pay the amount. I didn’t get any call or mail on the investigation status or update. I was not really sure if I am getting the correct feedback from SBI customer care on my case.
– I again sent mail on 15th Jan 2013 to “[email protected] “, Divya Dhody (nodal officer) and other SBI contacts [email protected] about this and I didn’t hear back any of SBI contacts except the SBI card statement.
These are things happened and now I am in total confusion where my case stand and how to proceed.
Requesting you to look into this and help me to come out of this. As I mentioned I am one of the prudent and satisfied customer of SBI customer till today. I paid all my dues without any default or any issues. Now if you notice these fraud transactions which has come as a bolt from the blue, were made on Russian Railway site where I not at all connected and I am in India and I have no connections on this. Moreover I immediately called SBI call center and blocked my card. I also confirm to you sincerely that I never shared my card details and other details about my card with anyone. This is purely a fraud transaction where no single penny of this money has been utilized by me.
Yours faithfully,
Kathir
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