Originally Posted by
mashlakito
It appears that they are targeting honest, paying on time individuals with their ridiculous tactics. I don't see the point of verifying information from OTHER banks cards, or asking for revenue canada's slips. Both of these informations are private and confidential. If they want to verify one's income that they call revenue canada and not ask to have this information faxed over.
Maybe a CIBC agent on here might be willing to explain CIBC's actions?!?!
I work for CIBC, however not with CIBC VISA so I don't have much information. To be honest, I've never even heard of this before. I've had a CIBC visa since I was legal age, and this has never happened to me. I've had the card blocked while I was travelling before, which I don't mind at all, cause I just use my mastercard as the back-up, and then call visa when I leave the store and get the card unblocked. And then I get them to credit me the aeroplan miles I would of earned on that purchase. Simple really.
but as for the employment verification, and confirming the other numbers on other visa cards, it's something that is foreign to me.
I can ask around work today, to see if anyone has heard of it. However I work at Telephone banking,so the odds of someone know about Visa procedures and slim.