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Citi Goodwill letter success

Hey guys, I just wanted to make my experience public I'm case it's useful to anyone.

I had one 30-day late payment from April of ’19 and after reading on here tried calling a few times to request it be removed. Nobody ever knew what I was talking about at all, and it was a major waste of time. They have their script and they don't know anything else.

I basically gave up for a few months until I decided that I wanted to refinance and that late payment was hurting my credit score considerably.

Anyway, I found a list of like 27 or 37 Citibank executives and copied that into my recipient field in Gmail. Then found a Goodwill letter template and made it reflect my situation.

Less than a week later, I received an encrypted response, made an account to be able to open the response and it said that they requested that the late payment be removed.

Less than a week after that, and my creditkarma score is up about 30 points and I have a 100% on my payments instead of 99%.

I know everyone always asks for the email address that worked, so just Google something like "Citibank executive email" and you'll find a list of the big wigs.

Good luck everyone
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thornback
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Re: Citi Goodwill letter success

Congratulations on your sucess!!  Fantastic.  - Welcome to the forums!!

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Anonymous
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Re: Citi Goodwill letter success

Congrats on your success thats amazing!

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collics
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Re: Citi Goodwill letter success

That's excellent. Congrats.

 

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Chestnut1
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Re: Citi Goodwill letter success

Congratulations on your Success. **bleep** good job. !!


@Anonymous wrote:
Hey guys, I just wanted to make my experience public I'm case it's useful to anyone.

I had one 30-day late payment from April of ’19 and after reading on here tried calling a few times to request it be removed. Nobody ever knew what I was talking about at all, and it was a major waste of time. They have their script and they don't know anything else.

I basically gave up for a few months until I decided that I wanted to refinance and that late payment was hurting my credit score considerably.

Anyway, I found a list of like 27 or 37 Citibank executives and copied that into my recipient field in Gmail. Then found a Goodwill letter template and made it reflect my situation.

Less than a week later, I received an encrypted response, made an account to be able to open the response and it said that they requested that the late payment be removed.

Less than a week after that, and my creditkarma score is up about 30 points and I have a 100% on my payments instead of 99%.

I know everyone always asks for the email address that worked, so just Google something like "Citibank executive email" and you'll find a list of the big wigs.

Good luck everyone

 

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FireMedic1
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Re: Citi Goodwill letter success

Welcome @Anonymous Congrats! Havent seen that in years from Citi. Wow. Sweet!


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AllZero
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Re: Citi Goodwill letter success

Congratulations on your success!
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soxfaininfl
Frequent Contributor

Re: Citi Goodwill letter success

Congratulations on your success. I'm still trying to get rid of a 30 day late from July of 2019 on my Kohl's account. Kohl's is backed by Capital One. It was a bank error that caused the late payment. 









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Anonymous
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Re: Citi Goodwill letter success

Would you be willing to share contact info and template? 

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Anonymous
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Re: Citi Goodwill letter success

This is valuable info. Thanks for sharing!

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