I signed up for a Home Depot credit card. Stupidly, I gave Home Depot ( actually Citibank ) my social security number. At the beginning of XXXX Citi dunned my account when I had previously set-up the account for auto pay from my local bank. When I went to Home Depot and tried to buy with the HD card, I could not. When I called the credit card nbr, I reminded the rep that I had requested auto-pay. Citi promptly and correctly took an amount for that billinig cycle. But I have heard from XXXX XXXX that this type of mini-fraud occurs often. 
Citibank as of today says it can not remove my SSN from its database. I asked Citi two days ago for my remaining balance to transfer to my local bank. I have not received it. 
