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How HDFC Credit Card’s Rip Off With Late Fees & Over Limit Fees Lead You into Debt Trap ?

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HDFC Card Debt TrapI’ve been running this Credit Card and Loan Advisory for over 8 years and during this time I have not come across a case as terrible as this one where HDFC Bank’s Credit Card’s division has optimized its accounting algorithm to levy Late fees, Over Limit Fees and push the consumer into severe debt trap.

A reader sent me an e-mail stating that he had spent a mere Rs 14,277 using HDFC Credit Card, and has already paid a whopping sum of Rs 1,04,612 [One Lakh Four Thousand Six Hundred Twelve] and the bank at its whims and fancy keeps raising bills which he is no position to pay and hence had prayed for help. I couldn’t believe if this was True and hence demanded statements. The user sent

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Serious Security Breach at HDFC Credit Cards & IT Systems – Advisory

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Issues With HDFC CardsIn the month of May 2014, there was an Unauthorized Transaction on my HDFC Bank Credit Card that happened in New York, USA while the card and myself are present in India. It was not an online transaction as my card is secured by Verified by Visa / MasterCard Secure Code. I raised a complaint with the HDFC Banks Card Division filling out their Dispute form and the bank duly refunded the disputed charge but not without several correspondences including to the one with ombudsman.

I duly blocked the card and asked for new plastic. To my surprise, I found that another transaction has happened at the same merchant within 3 days of receiving the new card. This is just impossible as I have not used the card online so chances of breach happening from my

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How to Enable / Disable International Spend Credit Limits on HDFC Cards

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Indian Credit Card users witnessed massive Skimming Fraud with their Card being present in their own wallet purchases were made in Spain, South America etc. We wrote to the RBI to curb this menace. The Consumer Friendly and Pr-Active institution – Reserve Bank of India mandated that each and every Credit Card issuer give a liberty to the Customer to either Enable or Disable International Spending. Further, if International Spending is enabled, the Consumer must have a choice to set his own Credit Limit.

HDFC Bank Ltd, India’s Largest Credit Card Issuer put its IT department on an emergency work and was able to give a choice to its Customers [Enable / Disable International Spending]. Today we’ll walk you

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How A new Credit Card Fraud Using Telephone / IVR is Operating in India ?

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Credit Card Frauds in IndiaIt has come to our light that a New Kind of Credit Card Fraud Racket is operating in India using the Telephone and IVR [Interactive Voice Response] mechanism. How is this Credit Card Fraud Ring Operating ? A Reader shared his story with us.

A person called from Delhi from the Number +911204835500 named as Arthi and told that the call is from HDFC Bank Credit Card department. As I am a preferred customer of HDFC bank credit card, I will receive some discount cards with other benefits like cash discounts

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A Case of Appropriation of Money against HDFC Master Credit Card

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HDFC Credit Card Mis Appropriation of FundsA reader submits that all is not well when it comes to the business practices of HDFC Bank credit Card. Here is a Consumer Woe on the same.

I had tried to renew Reliance General Insurance Mediclaim Policy (New Policy Number 9202522825002493) online on 6th December 2012 whose renewal was due on 7th December 2012. The amount was debited to HDFC Bank Master Credit Card ending with 6281 but the transaction with the merchant failed and no policy was issued. I immediately disputed the same with HDFC Bank and to reverse the amount. Meanwhile Reliance General Insurance using the information from the Bank

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HDFC Credit Cards Roll-Out “One Time Password” for Online Transactions

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HDFC Cards OTP-1India’s Largest Credit Card issuer, HDFC Credit Cards today informed us that they have rolled out One Time Password [OTP] authentication for Online Transactions. Consumers now have a choice to use either MasterCard SecureCode / Verified by Visa OR One Time Password which will be sent to the customers registered e-mail id as well as mobile phone.

As soon as we received the call, we decided to test it out by paying Reliance Communications bill online. As shown in the image above, you are provided a choice.

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