Date Received: 2018-05-10
Issue: Improper use of your report
Subissue: Credit inquiries on your report that you don't recognize
Consumer Complaint: My credit files indicates that someone opened a loan / lease on XX/XX/2016 these ar ethe providers and I had not authorized the parties to use me this is effecting my credit and or ability to get credit tieing up my score XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX for around XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
Company Response:
State: NC
Zip: 27886
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2018-05-14
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2018-05-08
Issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed
Subissue: Debt is not yours
Consumer Complaint: Citizens Bank claims I owe XXXX since XX/XX/2017 for a credit card transaction card # XXXX. They have not provided proof I owe this money. Supervisory staff hasnt returned my calls and refuses to escalate my complaint for internal review. The bank has reported this past due amount to the credit bureau impacting my credit report. I would this issue investigated and if its determined I dont owe the money, a corrective letter sent to the credit bureau.
Company Response:
State: MA
Zip: XXXXX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2018-05-08
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2018-05-08
Issue: Managing the loan or lease
Subissue: Problem with additional products or services purchased with the loan
Consumer Complaint: I took out a loan on XX/XX/2015 with XXXX XXXX in XXXX, Illinois. The total amount financed was {$21000.00}. After moving to XXXX I went to another XXXX car dealership in XXXX, NY to request to trade in the vehicle. The representative at this dealership noticed that the loan was overvalued. I am XXXX speaking and had applied for the car loan but was not provided with verbal information or written documents in my native language. After reviewing the loan contract with a financial coach, we identified two supplementary insurance packages added to the loan which has increased the cost of the loan and impacted my ability to pay. The Gap Care Advantage package was added to the loan for a value of {$590.00} and Autoguard was added to the loan for a total of {$1800.00}. I did not consent to these insurance packages. I also noticed a discrepancy in that contract that states the cash down payment was {$3500.00}, however the receipt given to me on the date I took out the loan was for a cash down payment of {$2000.00}. I requested a cancellation of both supplementary insurance packages. I have only received a response from Auto Guard for a partial refund of {$280.00}. The entire cost was {$590.00} and I never consented to the purchase of it. In addition to the dollar value of the insurance, because it was added to the loan, I have also been paying interest on top of the original value. The refund was sent to the car dealer by the insurance company but the car dealer has not provided any information regarding the refund of this insurance. I have called the car dealer on many times and they say they will call back but they never do. I have not received any response regarding the refund of the other insurance package valued at {$1800.00} plus interest on the loan. They also told me that after 6 months of payment, my interest payment would be automatically reduced to 2.99 %. At the time I asked the representative at XXXX to write this down for me and she said she could not, but I could write it down on her business card. Because the car dealership was not providing the financing themselves, they should not have provided me with an offer they had no control over and couldn't execute. They also told me that my payment would be $ XXXX monthly but it ended up being {$330.00}. When I went back to inquire they said it would be reduced after 6 months. When I returned after 6 months they denied making this assertion. I requested to speak with the representative who originally made this offer but they said that person is no longer at the company.
Company Response:
State: NY
Zip: 11354
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2018-05-08
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2018-05-07
Issue: Problem with a lender or other company charging your account
Subissue: Transaction was not authorized
Consumer Complaint: On Friday XX/XX/XXXX I discovered that 4 ACH withdrawals were made from our savings acct. {$450.00}, {$900.00}, {$100.00} and {$2100.00}. I immediately contacted our bank Citizens bank and it has been a nitemare!! I went thru 5 different people and finally made a complaint on social media. I then was contacted and told that they would work on it and wed hopefully have our $ $ by today or tomorrow. I asked the bank how this happened as we have NEVER had an ACH withdrawal from our savings before. No one can give me an answer. I filed a complaint with the XXXX and my complaint with Citizens has now been brought to the attn of the chairmans office but when they called me today, they said nothing except their name and that theyd be handling my case? She said Id get a phone call by the end of the week?? I just now discovered that 2 MORE FRAUDULENT WITHDRAWALS HAVE TAKEN PLACE TO MY CHECKING ACCT!!! {$400.00} and {$600.00} ... .I called the bank again at XXXX XXXX ... spoke to a supervisor who filed those two additional claims and only apologized!! I am disgusted and I want my money!!! I want answers too!! How did this happen?? What kind of fraud security am I being provided with? No one at the bank can tell me?? I want my {$4600.00}!!! Im filing complaints with the state tomorrow and will continue to do so until our money and explanation is returned
Company Response:
State: MA
Zip: 027XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2018-05-07
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2018-05-07
Issue: Problem caused by your funds being low
Subissue: Overdrafts and overdraft fees
Consumer Complaint: I have been in contact, and have received a letter, from the office of the chairman with citizens bank. I have been told that since i have received a refund in the past, that i am not alligable for another. This is despite the evidence of foul play provided to XXXX XXXX, who manages these types of complaints with citizens. This bank has manipulated my account by ; failing to update transactions, altering the order of deposites, holding deposites, double foreign atm fees, random service charges, and not following their own policies regarding posting orders. I was contacte3d by XXXX XXXX, and before reviewing my proof, he made the statement that there would be no refund. He refuse3d to review the evidence provided through email which documented the banks illegal activities to obtain their fees.
Company Response:
State: NY
Zip: 145XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2018-05-07
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2018-05-07
Issue: Problems at the end of the loan or lease
Subissue: Unable to receive car title or other problem after the loan is paid off
Consumer Complaint: My son XXXX wanted to pay off my car since he was XXXX in XX/XX/2017, helping the survivor victims in Puerto Rico. I have continuously received poor customer service from Citizens One employees over the phone and in person at the branch. My account number is XXXX, I have been given the wrong pay off balance since XXXX, I have gone into the branch and they have refused to accept the check my son sent me to pay off the car. In an attempt to finalize the car payment he went online and paid off the majority of the balance leaving a small balance of less than XXXX XXXX dollars. I went into the branch and was told that since the car was paid in full that they will stop taking the monthly payment funds out of my checking account. I was advised to mail in a check of the sixty something dollars to the pay off department. I did that and the bank went ahead and withdrew the full monthly car payment amount after the car was paid in full and cash in the XXXX XXXX dollar check that was suppose to be the final pay off. I disputed with my bank the unauthorized car payment deduction and now Citizens One bank refuses to send me my car tittle, they have sent me numerous letters one stating that my car was paid, then another one saying that they are sending me to collections and a third one stating that I have to pay for a replacement tittle for the car when they have never sent me the original tittle in the first place. I am a senior citizens and do not understand all this confusion, no one in the branch is willing to help me and over the phone I continuously get wrong information, pending balances and rude service. It is the banks responsibility to issue a tittle once the car is paid off, I have gone to the Motor Vehicle Department and was advised that the bank is issuing a lost tittle claim so I in return would have to pay XXXX XXXX dollars for a replacement tittle.This has been the worst experience of my life trying to get a straight answer to a pay off quote, if my car is indeed paid in full and to try and get my tittle to the car my son paid off for me so I wont have that bill.
Company Response:
State: MA
Zip: 010XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2018-05-07
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2018-05-02
Issue: Closing an account
Subissue: Fees charged for closing account
Consumer Complaint: In XX/XX/2018 I closed a checking account with Citizens Bank and had no checks outstanding or debits from debit card. A month later the bank put a dr or debit for {$270.00} for service fees and overdrafts and sustained overdrafts. I am a XXXX year old XXXX XXXX veteran. The bank does not care that the only thing that reopened and caused this negative balance was their fees. They call my landline phone harassing me and I want them to cancel out those fees after I closed my account and stop calling me.
Company Response:
State: RI
Zip: 02861
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2018-05-02
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2018-05-02
Issue: Written notification about debt
Subissue: Didn't receive enough information to verify debt
Consumer Complaint: I am trying to understand what is going on what the payments to this account. My account is set up for auto-debit. The amount to be debited was supposed to have been calculated by XXXX to include the accumulated interest between payments. I am reviewing the payments made relative to the accumulated interest, particularly for XX/XX/2017, and see that the interest amount kept accumulating despite the monthly payment amounts exceeding the monthly interest accumulation. I don't understand how this is possible, especially since I am now learning that this loan is re-amortized on a quarterly basis. My loan statements indicate the monthly payment was being entirely applied to interest, and yet the interest kept going up, in some cases by hundreds of dollars in-between months. I have previously asked for the terms of my loan agreement, specifically that part that addresses interest rate calculation, amortization, and other pertinent terms to the calculation and pay-off of my loan. My monthly loan payment was changing, and I did not understand why this way occurring. I even went through the CFPB in an attempt to obtain the relevant documents. CFPB closed out my case after XXXX responded, and did not provide me an opportunity to indicate whether the information provided addressed the issue. XXXX responded that the monthly payment changed due to changes in my interest rate. However, to date, I have only received a two-page promissory note, but nothing with the loan interest rate or calculation formula. I have requested this information so that I can review it. I do not have a problem with paying an owned debt ; however, I would like to know how the debt is determined so that I can make informed decisions as a consumer on how best to resolve the debt. This issue is only occurring on my CitizenBank student loan serviced by XXXX. Each time, both entities keep telling me I need to go through the other party for the requested information, resulting in me not being able to obtain the information from either. Attached is all of the information I have received from either party relating to the terms of my loan. The document DOES NOT address the loan terms, but simply defines ( incompletely as terms are clearly missing ) them.
Company Response:
State: TX
Zip: 77076
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2018-05-02
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2018-05-01
Issue: Problems at the end of the loan or lease
Subissue: Problem while selling or giving up the vehicle
Consumer Complaint: Purchased a new XXXX vehicle in late XX/XX/XXXX. Loan was provided by XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX. 15 Years has elapsed since the loan was taken out, and the loan was paid in full. I am selling the vehicle, but unable to locate the title. DMV requuires Letter of Lien Release. Charter One is now defunct. It was apparently taken over by Citizens One / Citizens Bank per the FDIC website Tried using their " MyTitleSuppor : title service on XX/XX/XXXX, which is unable to find the title. Tried calling Citizens Bank and they are unable to find the vehicle in their records.
Company Response:
State: NJ
Zip: 076XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2018-05-01
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A
Date Received: 2018-05-01
Issue: Problem caused by your funds being low
Subissue: Overdrafts and overdraft fees
Consumer Complaint: I have contacted and spoken to, " XXXX '', and have been denied a refund from citizensbank. This matter is in regards to fees obtained in an illegal manner on my citizens account. I have taken screen shots of my account frequently, and have documented account minipulation by citizensbank. The bank has applied double fees, held deposites and withdrawls for days even weeks, random surcharges, aswell as random fees.
Company Response:
State: NY
Zip: 145XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2018-05-03
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: N/A