Comments on: Citibank “SEC line item” double-books authorized charges on compromised accounts?

By: Andrew Sz

Andrew Sz — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:04:34 +0000

I’ve just checked my Citi Card balance online and found this TOTAL SEC BALANCE TRANSFR-ITEMIZED message. (Today is Aug 2, 2010).
After reading other victims’ messages, now I feel better, but I am going to dispute this “new charge” online just to make Citi busy.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:08:34 +0000

I got this message in April 2010 for 153.54. Hopefully all the above information is true because I only call citi if I absolutley have to… gotta love outsourcing jobs, right. Give India a bunch of jobs while borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out citigroup.. Ah, don’t get me started. Thanks for the info, everyone.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:10:17 +0000

Got the same TOTAL SEC BALANCE TRANSFR-ITEMIZED message, but mine totaled $2269.04! It did not raise the total balance but sure had me ticked off. The Indian woman on the phone was 1. Completely unintelligible and 2. Just told me “not to worry about it”. Glad I found this website– puts my mind at ease. Unfortunately, I have a $1600.00 payment I want to send them and the website will not accept an online payment presumably until I active the new card, which I do not have yet.

By: Preston

Preston — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:49:02 +0000

CiTi gLiTcH.

No problem. The charge means nothing. Record keeping my ass though, like they don’t know how much your balance is… and why print it as a charge ? Balance transfer? Really. They have my number they should’ve text.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:11:06 +0000

I just got a surprise new card in the mail from Citi, and the same messages online. When I called the customer service operator told me this wasn’t a double charge, but actually a separate charge equal to the balance on my account before it was closed. I am concerned I am going to end up paying twice… Thanks for the info! I’m going to keep working on it.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:20:22 +0000

Ha.. well, thank you for posting this. I just got my $570 Total Sec Balance Transfer item on my account.

Needless to say I was a little freaked out at first. Called them up, and they said the same thing you did. Would have been nice to get some explanation on this when they sent me the new card. Sigh… oh well.

By: Jano

Jano — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:19:30 +0000

Just saw this on my Citi card. I have credit cards from the major players and Citi’s been the one I trust the least. I had a low interest rate card that has been raised quite a lot. Like many people I have no balance and have paid on time for years. I opted out of this and will wee if they go through with cancelling me in 2010. They spent a lot of marketing money trying to get me to sign up for this card.…guess I’m not as profitable to them as they thought. Like other this “accounting glich” is just another issue I don’t need to waste my time on. Plenty of other competitors.….don’t need Citi anymore.