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CitiBank has one of these as well. You get 1% at the time of purchase and 1% when you pay down your balance:
https://www.citi.com/credit-cards/credit-card-details/citi.action?ID=citi-double-cash-credit-card -
how safe? "safe enough"
If someone gets my CC# and charges stuff then my CC company absorbs the loss. By paying cash you're giving up 2% cash back. That's not a price I'm willing to pay. I'd love if it I could pay *everything* on my credit card. Mortgage, property tax, etc. Want those sweet, sweet rewards.
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Re:The trademark just sailed through examination.
https://accountonline.citi.com...
There's actually an AT&T branded credit card, issued by.... Citibank. When they first came out, it was a combination long distance calling card and credit card. Now, as far as I can tell, it's just another credit card with no particular other benefit.
I suspect that this is at the root of the lawsuit. Because AT&T is already in business with Citibank (and their combined credit card is one that offers the "thankyou" (tm) benefits), Citibank is annoyed that AT&T would brand their other loyalty program similarly.
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Re:read the report, not the spin
Any democratic nation would lynch its leaders given the devastating economic consequences such policies have; it's not going to happen.
You presume there will be devastating economic consequences. Other economic analysis including a recent report from Citibank that says it will be cheaper to do something than to not. Link (PDF)
There are no "ultimate effects". The climate is changing, like it always has been. Sea levels have been rising more than 400 ft over the last 10000 years; did civilization end? Did humans become extinct? No, of course not. Even if all the ice on the planet melts, they can only rise another 200 ft, and that would still take centuries, if not millennia.
It's more like 130 feet over the last 10,000 years (400 feet over the last 20,000 years). But of course that was before we developed our modern civilization, before we had trillions of dollars in infrastructure built near sea level. Over the last 7,000 years the rise around 6 feet and over the last 4,000 years it's been less than a foot. I agree that melting all the rest of the ice will take millennia but with up to 6 feet of SLR by 2100 it's going to be pretty costly to move all of the affected infrastructure and 2100 won't be the end of it.
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Re: Sad Reality
Sad reality is that we can't overcome our preconceptions and decide on the right solutions based on practicality.
For example, as wonderful as solar is, its lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions are on par with natural gas (see Figure 66 page 64 of report). But it is so hard for many to believe that they just deny it. Denial won't get us to where we need to be.
https://ir.citi.com/hsq32Jl1m4... -
Re:New jobs will be created.
No, this dream about the 'new jobs' isn't supported by a lot of evidence. New jobs will likely not be created in the numbers necessary to give jobs to everyone displaced. Actually, not even close, and that'll be true in all sectors. https://ir.citi.com/FItMGwO7Z6...
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Re:Chip and PIN
the most likely scenario for paying for the switch is that banks will offer their customers a "New, more secure card!" for the low, low price of ($10? $20?).
They don't cost any more than non-chip cards. I requested EMV cards from both Citibank and Bank of America (via online account management) and didn't have to pay anything.
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Companies could do more to prevent phishingYou have to admit that the companies themselves are making it as difficult as possible to spot phishing. For instance, look at the Citibank valid list of URLs:
- web.da-us.citibank.com
- www.citi.com
- www.citibank.com
- www.myciti.com
- www.citibankonline.com
- www.citibank.com/us/cards
- www.accountonline.com
- www.citicards.com
- www.thankyouredemptions.com
- www.studentloan.com
- studentloan.citibank.com
- citibusinessonline.di-us.citibank.com
- citibusinessonline.com
- citibusiness.com
- www.citimortgage.com
- www2.citimortgage.com
- www.smithbarney.com
- www.benefitaccess.com
Well, excuse me if I can't keep all your fscking domains straight, Citibank! How am I supposed to spot a phishing attack when you have 18 URLs on your list of valid ones? I think you could do a lot to help folks spot phishing emails if you would restrict yourself to your citibank.com domain. Then folks could remember, "You want citibank? Go to citibank.com."
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The BANKS abuse DNS
A legitimate email from Citibank contains something like 6 distinct domain names and a dozen or more hostnames for all the bits of image, URL, hosts the email traversed, etc. You cannot verify the legitimacy by "understanding DNS".
Here's what I see in my most recent "bank alert" from Citibank (legitimate message telling me of a recent paycheck deposit):
alerts@citibank.com
mail.citigroup.com
imbomr-nj02.nj.ssmb.com
imbaspam-ss02.namdmz.dmzroot.net
altgrn04.citialertgrn.da-us-grn.citicorp.com
http://www.citi.com/domain/images/36wav.gif
http://www.citibank.com/domain/images/citi36.gif
It used to be a lot worse. This has fewer domains that I remember. I recall there was also a citibank.net (I think)
scam when someone registered that it Italy several years ago. -
Banks are a Huge Part of the ProblemYou have to admit that the banks themselves are making it as difficult as possible to spot phishing. For instance, look at the Citibank valid list of URLs:
- web.da-us.citibank.com
- www.citi.com
- www.citibank.com
- www.myciti.com
- www.citibankonline.com
- www.citibank.com/us/cards
- www.accountonline.com
- www.citicards.com
- www.thankyouredemptions.com
- www.studentloan.com
- studentloan.citibank.com
- citibusinessonline.di-us.citibank.com
- citibusinessonline.com
- citibusiness.com
- www.citimortgage.com
- www2.citimortgage.com
- www.smithbarney.com
- www.benefitaccess.com
Well, excuse me if I can't keep all your fscking domains straight, Citibank! How am I supposed to spot a phishing attack when you have 18 URLs on your list of valid ones? I think you could do a lot to help folks spot phishing emails if you would restrict yourself to your citibank.com domain. Then folks could remember, "You want citibank? Go to citibank.com."
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Customers Get Compensated!
Just for everyone's information, any Citibank customer that is a part of Citibank's Credit Monitoring Service will get 90 days for free for this little accident of thiers. Even though, this is small compensation for potentially getting your entire identity stolen, it is still worth about 30 bucks, so I for one welcome that. You can find more information or sign up for the Credit Monitoring Service at https://www.creditmonitoring.citi.com/index.asp.
I would guess that they will require you to have been a customer before this incident happened to get the 90 day credit. I think their incentive for this is so that users can check to see if anything is wrong with their credit, while in the same time, making their liability a bit less if this incident is ever taken to court. -
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