i'm wondering how they're getting the cell phone numbers which are supposed to be unpublished. i put them in donotcall.gov. i don't use citibank.

Received a text message: / Congratulations! Your CITI Card Cashback Bonus is ready to be redeemed!. Simply call 1-877-240-2505 to redeem. /

Scam.  See my notes at http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-877-240-2505

You should NOT have to pay for those messages.  They're illegal.  Call your provider when you get your bill.

Details:
The FCC released an order in Aug, 2004 that reiterated that SMS spam messages to cellphones are illegal under the existing Telephone Consumer Protection Act and also under the CAN-SPAM Act. Each such unsolicited message you receive without permission entitles you to take the sender to small claims court and collect a minimum of $500 for each violation. They said this in 2003, and now have reiterated it. To quote: 'In 2003, we released a Report and Order in which we reaffirmed that the TCPA prohibits any call using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded message to any wireless telephone number. We concluded that this encompasses both voice calls and text calls, including Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging calls, to wireless phone numbers.'

Yes.  Citibank says this is phishing fraud.

https://www.citicards.com/cards/wv/detail.do?screenID=607 says:
Example of SMishing Text Message:
8772402505@citicards.com / Congratulations! Your CITI Card Cashback Bonus is ready to be redeemed! Simply call 877-240-2505 to redeem.

got the same text on my cellphone may 7 2009. says it's from 3572.

My text message was the same as Monique's and I got already 3 of them. What to do? Why I have to pay for that messages?

I RECEIVED A TEXT MSG  WITH THIS NUMBER AND IT SAYS
"8772402505@CITICARDS.COM/ CONGRATULATONS! YOUR CITI CARD CASHBACK BONUS IS READY TO BE REDEEMED. SIMPLY CALL 1-877-240-2505 TO REDEEM./"
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS IS ABOUT?

text messages I don't want.