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I received calls from this number both at home and on my cell. They left a message on my cell that just was "Helllloooo" in a deep mail voice. It was a little scary.

Citibank 's rep -our card is less than 30 days overdue. This is a very tough economy and guess what - we don't all work for someone that pays us exactly every week, bi weekly or monthlly - it is ENTREPRENUERS that have developed everything that you have.   While you get paid regularly, the very people that are paying you this way regularly hold back how they pay us so they can keep a few dollars interest.  This should not be personal with you - if we are late we have to pay the interest, so please be polite, there is no need for savagae and rude comments.  If we did your jobs we would be making a peons salarly of about $15 per hour - we make much more that that!!!.   What a joke, I sign my employees requests for loan documents, yet you don't trust me for 10 days without phoning my house every 20 minutes??? There is something very wrong here.  You have a job to do - so I - but I don't get paid every Friday, 15th or 30th of the month. The financial institution that gets this will make a fortune - some courtesy and respect here please.  You are only clerks following a company's collection practice - we are the ones that pioneered a collection clerk's necessity, so please, don't try to do the I'm more important than you scenario with your BS on the phone - real ENTREPRENEURS know that you are no more than a collection nobody clerk, who's voice tries to sound that they have some legal authority - what a joke.  
Those of you who have received a call from this number, please do not be afraid!!  No one can hurt you, or do anything else to you.  A judge will decide, and this only happen some at least one year down the road, long enough for you to figure out your financial circumstances - don't let these people frighten or threaten you.  They are CLERKS and not legal anything that can take your house, car or children.  They are in really only less than sales clerks.

As a final note - I am NOT saying that you should not pay the debts that you have incurred.   If you owe this money, then you have a moral orbligation to pay your debts.  What should NOT be happening is threats that make you feel that you HAVE to pay Citibank before you pay your rent/mortgage, food, utilities, transportation or any other NECESSITY of living.  They will try to make you feel than you MUST do this.  Look after everyithing else, and then, and ONLY then, pay them.  Your children should not starve, or anything else.  Make arrangements that they stop charging you INTEREST.  Otherwise, the amount will just get larger.  Cut up the card and give it back to them and then call a credit company that deals directly with them to do just this.  A $1200 crediit card with interest can take in excess of 10 years to pay off if they keep charging a high rate of interest.  Don't be afraid - if you are afraid, call one of the many credit companies that deal with "orderly payment of debt":  This method will NOT help your credit report, but will stop the nasty calls.  If you are seriously in debt, call a bankruptcy trustee who will ELIMIMATE your debt without you repaying your debt.  The time limit on your credit bureau report is the same (7 years).  You may not have to pay ANYTHING if the trustee decides you cannot afford it, and the company that is bothering you can no longer phone You!!!  Look up Bankruptcy Trustees in your area phone book for help.  Don't get all upset and stressed out.  This CAN and will be resolved.  Do NOT talk to the credit card collector - just like court this will hurt you - talk to your bankruptcy trustee - they will deal with your mastercard. No more stress or collection calls.   Good Luck and be more careful in the future!! Learn everything you can about credit management in the next 7 years once your name has been cleared (no they can't call your relatives or anyone else like your employer to embarass you.)

Do you think Citi honestly cares how many times you complain? It's a computer calling you, and it will keep doing it because the government won't do anything to stop it. If you have an account with them, bank or credit card, you're screwed.

I've received calls from several 1-800 numbers and I think they are collection agencies that spoof the caller ID.  When I started forwarding the collection agency calls back to their number, the calls stopped, then the 1-800 calls from three different number started, very aggressively calling several times per day. I'm located in the BC lower mainland.

What I did is turn off anonymous calling (I use Vonage) and after 3 rings forward all calls to an unlisted number, so they eventually get the idea the number has been changed.

I have heard if you subscribe to Google Voicemail you can do selective number call blocking.

These numbers include:
1 866 294 1752 (collection agency)
1 800 420 1686
1 800 256 8580
1 800 561 4465

That happemd with me too. The interest they are charging is outragious .Time to try to get rid of this one..

I keep getting calls from these people, generally no message, with the exception of two messages left... both times some chinese dude saying 'telephone'.  that [***] is F-ed up!

SO, I called back and cranked the tunes when they called back! I made my payment, STOP calling me!

Citibank, like most other credit card providers, use a third party to collect if you are late in payments. Often the card company reps either don't even know about the process or they lie if they do. I would, on legal and privacy principles, NEVER answer any call from a toll-free number that does not put their business name on the caller ID. I let mine ring until voicemail picks it up, and I have a nasty message already recorded there.