The most pathetic, unethical bank I have ever dealt with. I have long relationships with many banks in four different Countries, I have never seen a bank behave as unethically as Standard Chartered i... See more
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WORSE BANK EVER
Worse bank ever. If I can rate 0 stars, I will do it. I wanted to cancel my credit card but there’s an instalment plan. Called up the bank and they ensure I made the full payment and can terminate the card without paying the annual fee. Now they call me every single day with a stupid robotic voice to keep telling me I got an outstanding payment. The CSO waiting time is horrendous. I am NEVER GOING TO APPLY ANYTHING FROM THIS STUPID BANK EVER AGAIN. If Standard Chartered is going to see this review, please get someone who can deal with my problem to call me back.
Worst bank experience
Worst bank experience. So my very old grandparents went there with my account details and wanted to send money to my local account. This lady thinks it's an international account ( am shocked and laughing hard at this point). Well at the end she didn't bother sending the money so they had to go to dtb. I mean what kind of stupid people do you employ who have no Ideas of the banks that belong to Kenya or Africa at large. Disappointed 😞
Absolutely shocking customer service…
Absolutely shocking customer service having received notification of a fraudulent transaction on our account we subsequently called and cancelled the transaction and the customer service person said they would have to cancel the card. This was never done and as such the transaction went through. After calling again I was told that fraud division don’t deal with debit card issues and I need to wait for the relevant department to call me. Not the first issue it’s criminal the way they operate and we will be closing our account.
if I could put zero star
if I could put zero star, that would be my honest review for this bank, a bank who totally does not have goodwill extended to customer even though I have been with them for 25 years. How to continue to place my business with them?
worst bank in the world
Hopeless bank after the transaction got…
Hopeless bank after the transaction got refunded from the Amazon till bank generated a credit card statement against it
Pathetic bank if 0 was option I would had selected 0
Worst bank in the world
Worst bank in the world. Full of fraudulent and also they are stealing the money from people. Please don't go for standard chartered bank.
F* stupid bank
F* stupid bank. Cant even pay my credit card bills from their savings account. Told me my savings account is not active, but i can transfer funds inside, but not transfer out. Really useless. In this age, told me only solution is to go down to a physical atm to deposit cash in to pay my credit card bill. LMAO
A very terrible bank SCB
A very terrible bank, ask for the redemption letter for almost 2 month. Keep giving any unreasonable execuses. Extremely disappointed with this bank. Wouldn't recommend to anybody or having any banking matter with Standard chartered bank again.
worst bank ever
VERY BAD customer service both in person and hotline. Someone has been using my CC from overseas but I didn't get any notification. Another card was linked to my account too but IDK where that came from. I couldn't access my app as well since I was blocked. Too important not to share, I, the original and sole account holder, is blocked and yet someone else was making purchases using my CC details and the bank does not entertain or listen to my concerns. They'll give you a death stare in person and make you look stupid when you ask for clarifications no matter how friendly you approach them. Much worst in calling them through the fraudulent transactions hotline, they'll just read whatever is written in front of them even when you're in the middle of talking. Talk about arguing with someone who pays blindly because you get summons from the bank. Also, they DON'T send you monthly statements like other banks do even though you opt out for paper statements. You'll be shocked how many unauthorised transactions has pushed through and they dare ask you to pay immediately. They don't even give you contact numbers, what about protecting your details and hard-earned money by trusting banks such as this?
Terrible bank service and horrible…
Terrible bank service and horrible credit card policies. They will find any excuses to charge you whatever fee they can to earn money. Use the bank at your own risk. So many people I know got screwed.
What a pleasant experience !
Courteous and efficient handling of what I wanted when I visited their Priority Banking Helpdesk at Koramangala Branch. Was such a pleasant experience !
Customer care services, Riffa Branch. Bahrain
I went to the customer care counter at the branch of Standard Chartered Bank in Rifa. Where I had to wait 23 minutes for my turn. While there was no other customer than me. The services of the bank are very bad and the staff were busy in their pleasant gossip with each other. The customer has no preference in the bank. Counter No. 4 and 5 were completely free while the staff at Counter No. 3 was engaged in dealing with their clients over the telephone. Finally I had to leave from there without any care.
Very poor services
Very poor services. I tried to activate my card with different fone number an I’d myocardial and number is still in process from last 20 days. In Bahria town Rawalpindi branch service is pathetic. No one even bothered what’s going on. Everyone is busy in their party. Things r like public hospital. Shame on stander chartered pathetic services. Waste of time and money.
Keep declining payment after I confirmed it is legit purchase
Made payment online, declined, tried again, declined again (even I have approved on app).
Sent me 2 SMS to confirm if I made payment; reply with a confirmation. Nothing happened. Then why sent SMS to ask me to confirm?
Then they blocked my card. Talked to CS, they unblocked it and I tried to make payment, declined. CS asked me to try in 10 min but refused to hold the chat.
I tried after 20min, declined again. What is the point if you don't trust the app approval?
Please do not use their credit card. This happened a few times already in the past few years.
Had very bad experience and…
Had very bad experience and disappointed with SC rewards systems.
I am writing to express my deep…
I am writing to express my deep dissatisfaction with the level of service and handling of my account conversion request at your bank.
On May 24th, 2024, I initiated a request to convert my account from a savings account to a salary account at your Barakhamba Road branch. Initially, your representative denied, later on she agreed this process would take 4-5 business days. However, due to delays from their end, the conversion did not occur as promised, and during this period, they continued to deduct charges from my account, including GST percentages which is INR 815 for the last month and for the last couple of months it is approx. INR 750 every month.
This issue has persisted since last year, and despite numerous attempts to address it through your customer service channels and emails to Prerna Gupta and Mohit Jangid, as well as to higher authorities including your nodal officer and Head, I have not received a satisfactory response. It appears that my concerns are not being taken seriously, as no action has been taken to refund the charges deducted from my account.I must emphasize that this situation has caused me significant financial inconvenience and frustration. I expect a prompt resolution to this matter, including the immediate refund of all charges deducted from my account since last year as is my hard-earned money.
CAN I EXPECT A RESOLUTION?
Regards
Anjali
I agreed fully with the rest that this…
I agreed fully with the rest that this is one of the worst and probably to avoid at all cost bank. Doing mortgage loan with them and they are by far the worst among all the banks in terms of service. No call back despite multiple escalation on the case after realizing that there was a lapse in their system. Are they being responsible for that?
Worst bank in the world
Worst bank in the world. No proper solutions for concerns. And just for statement they took 1week. Not sure what they did, might be they written by hand and they sent to mail. If hand written statement also wont take 1week.
And for pre closing of my personal loan am suffering from 1month.
If we have negative rating, i can give -100 rating.
Almost impossible to get real help or service
A bank that is proud of how hard they work at not having customers not being able to contact their customer service officers unfortunately deserves a zero star for service standards
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