AU Bank called me on 30th Oct saying I was prequalified for Lit LTF card and whether I had checked my AU app for offer. I said no. The AU Bank employee said he will guide me and said he will give me his employee code due to which it will be approved in 2-3 days. Since he said it was pre-approved, I agreed.
It was rejected next day after completing application. I have CIBIL score of 766, 100% on time payments and have ICICI, BOB, SBI, RBL, OneCard cards with 1 lakh+ limits on 3 of them and others too with good limits. They didn't even bother to inform WHY it was rejected. As we all know per RBI, starting July 2022, card issuer must disclose SPECIFIC reason why application is rejected but they blatantly ignore this rule. They kept saying "not eligible as per bank criteria" (which was the reason they sent in BOLD from the above copy-paste reply they sent to all rejected applicants). Why then did THEY call ME if wasn't in their criteria and do a hard CIBIL enquiry?
Then even worse thing is just few days later on 7th Nov, another AU bank person called again to tell me to apply for their CC. When I got furious and told him previous cheating, he said he will find out the reason and after transferring the call twice to his seniors, they lied and told some fake story that it was approved but ultimately rejected because the security guard couldn't verify my office address or some bullshit fake reason (I verified with security guard, he said no such person came to visit him or contacted him asking about me).
These are violating credit card rules in all this. I plan to lodge a complaint against them to RBI ombudsman after 30 days are complete of original complaint with AU Bank. RBI also needs to tighten up the credit card rules further and enforce them. If a bank calls a customer and says PRE-approved or PRE-qualified, then at least rejection reason MUST be disclosed instead of vague statement like "internal policy" or "eligibility criteria" especially if when they do CIBIL enquiry and reject silently. I will not apply for their card 6 months later as they are shit, liars and shameless for calling for 2nd time.