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Complaint Review: Bay Area Business Council - LARGO Florida
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Bay Area Business Council
801 W Bay Dr Ste 201 LARGO, Florida, U.S.A.
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727-518-7750
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Bay Area Business Council ripoff fraudulent ripoff business LARGO Florida
Like mostly everyone else here I was called and promised a credit card with a $2000 limit, the only thing I had to do was let them take the $187.90 out of my checking account. I was tired and should not have answered the phone, I gave out my account and routing number. It was the worst mistake I ever made.
After I got off the phone I was worried so I tried to call the 1-800 number I had been given. No answer, just rang and rang. I tried to call again numerous times only to finally get a recording that they were experiencing "high call volume" and "technical difficulities" and hoped to have these problems cleared up by March. This was December of 2001.
They say hindsight is 20/20, I immediately looked them up on the Better Business Bureau, bad bad news. They were con artists, scammers. I called my bank and had a stop check put on the check, paid the $15.00 fee and hoped that that would be the end of it.
I then started getting all these bounce notices from my bank, when I went there I found that BABC had not taken out the money as a check like stated but as an electronic transfer. It was not caught by my bank, there were also various other charges from BABC in differing amounts that I NEVER authorised. To top it off there were withdrawls from companies like ePhone and CyberNet. (I found out later that the company ePhone uses the same telemarketer to do their "business" that BABC does. I wonder how the hell they got my account info? Does BABC sell it to the highest bidder?)
BABC didn't just charge my account once, there were three seperate withdrawls for the $187.90, along with the other various amounts. My bank was able to reverse all of the charges except the first one, because it was a telephone agreement and they had me on tape. I have to try to get the money back myself.
The withdrawls just kept coming, I had to close my account. I am taking legal action to get my money back (hopefully I will get it) and I am also going to add in the "pain and suffering" that all the extra withdrawls caused me, considering I NEVER authorized anything but the original amount and NEVER received a d**n thing from them that the original amount was for.
Lisa Marie
Greenfield, Massachusetts
