1, Report:
#883763
Posted Date:
May 16 2012
Local Biz USA How were they allowed to bill everyones phone bill? Is the phone company getting a kickback? Rutherford, New Jersey
I can't believ any company can bill you on your phone bill? Don't we have regulations against a public utility allowing another company to tag your phone bill with miscellaneous charges??? Is Century link getting a kickback from Local Biz USA???? I have never spoke...
Entity
Local Biz USA
Categories: Attorney Generals
4, Report:
#549928
Posted Date:
Jan 22 2010
LOCAL BIZ, USA Unauthorized Phone Bill Charges Internet
This company is yet another that will call to say they are only updating information in their database. They will sound very innocent, but in the end, that will not be the case. We are a small business of which they claim to care about, but they end up trying to take advantage of us...
Entity
LOCAL BIZ, USA
Categories: Internet Marketing Companies
5, Report:
#524406
Posted Date:
Dec 29 2009
Local Biz USA called to verify our address without having the owners permission they signed us up for webpage services. Internet
Local Biz USA contacted our office with what we believed and they described as updating our address in their records. This is a practice we use to keep our records updated so there was nothing suspect about the call at the time, however after inspecting the phone records over...
Entity
Local Biz USA
Categories: Web Hosting
6, Report:
#284561
Posted Date:
Sep 16 2009
ILD Teleservices And LOCAL BIZ USA SCAM ARTISTS, THEIVES, and a CONSUMERS WORST NIGHTMARE!! No services were ever provided nor authorized, but the bills keep coming, how do they sleep at night? Internet
How is it possible that a company can charge you for no services rendered???? Without notice to you??? How can your phone company allow these charges to be on your bill without verifying it with their customers??? Don't they owe us at least some kind of fraud protection against c...
Entity
ILD Teleservices And LOCAL BIZ USA
Categories: Telephone Companies
7, Report:
#470700
Posted Date:
Jul 17 2009
Local Biz USA Small business's beware of cramming Rutherford New Jersey
Like others on this site I wish to tell about Local Biz USA. They called my company to confirm a directory listing. They never offered any service; we never requested any service; and we never received any service. The sales person from Local Biz USA called and the call was answe...
Entity
Local Biz USA
Categories: Telemarketers
8, Report:
#462330
Posted Date:
Jun 17 2009
Local Biz USA - third-party billed me via AT&T for unjust charges Rutherford New Jersey
Local Biz USA called to ask me to confirm information about my company's web address for a free directory listing. I confirmed the information. They forwarded me to another person for additional information. The person asked me for my name, position with the company, company name...
Entity
Local Biz USA
Categories: Websites
9, Report:
#285122
Posted Date:
Nov 16 2007
Local Biz USA Locked Me Out of My Website! Rutherford New Jersey
I've a website with Local Biz that's 6 years old. Recently I made a few changes to my site, so they redesigned the site so that I can't login into the control panel! I called them twice, and emailed them. They haven't done anything about it. I found a way to login to my email though...
Entity
Local Biz USA
Categories: Web Hosting
10, Report:
#278364
Posted Date:
Oct 11 2007
ILD TELECOMMUNICATIONS - Local Biz USA Unauthorized billing for unknown services Dallas Texas
Papaer bill received for unauthorized service.
The company was contacted in December, 2006. At that time the company representative told us to ignore the billing and that we would be removed from their billing list.
This has not happened. We continue to be billed and we continu...
Entity
ILD TELECOMMUNICATIONS - Local Biz USA
Categories: Telephone Companies
11, Report:
#233194
Posted Date:
Jan 29 2007
Local Biz USA Another victim of this scan but this victim wants payback Rutherford New Jersey
Just as with all those who have previously reported being defrauded by these scam artists they hit my company with the same routine. They even had the ultra poor quality, and obviously edited, audio tape to prove they had permission to open an account in our name.
They got me ...
Entity
Local Biz USA
Categories: Web Hosting
12, Report:
#214521
Posted Date:
Oct 06 2006
Local Biz USA Fast Talking Ripoff. Rutherford New Jersey
Upon recieving a call from our Customer Service Rep from Qwest Comm. my boss and I happened upon multiple charges billed from ESBI Spec Serv & Prod. On the break down list we saw 2 charges for 34.95. After doing a quick search on the internet I found these reports concerning Local B...
Entity
Local Biz USA
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
13, Report:
#180187
Posted Date:
Mar 09 2006
ILD Teleservices, LOCAL BIZ USA ripoff, telemarketing scam, charging phone bill Rutherford New Jersey
My first knowledge of this was when I went over my phone bill and saw this $38.10 under Charge Pass Thru; a company called ILD teleservices, billing on behalf of Local Biz USA.
I guess some time ago we were contacted by this telemarketer to have a free website. There is no way w...
Entity
ILD Teleservices, LOCAL BIZ USA
Categories: Web Hosting
14, Report:
#169817
Posted Date:
Dec 30 2005
Local Biz USA ripoff Internet New Jersey
I noticed a bill for $34.95 plus tax of $1.05 that was being posted to our Verizon bill through ESBI under localbizusa. Long story short I called and they verified listing with us by playing a recording that had some girl listed as an office manager that we've never even heard of. ...
Entity
Local Biz USA
Categories: Web Hosting
15, Report:
#146314
Posted Date:
Jun 15 2005
Local Biz USA.COM Phone Bill Charge Scam Ripoff Rutherford New Jersey
In early May a fast talking gentleman got on the phone and starting talking about a new local business directory that was free of charge.
While I tried my best to see it coming, the gentleman from local biz usa.com called and must of told me 10 times this was a free service to us...
Entity
Local Biz USA.COM
Categories: Telephone Companies
16, Report:
#143124
Posted Date:
May 18 2005
Local Biz USA unauthorized charges on my small business telephone bill Rutherford New Jersey
I also noticed an obscure charge on my small business local phone bill from Local Biz USA for $38.10. I tried calling them to dispute the charges, was told that there was a third party verification tape which they would find if I held on. Of course, I was disconnected after 5 minute...
Entity
Local Biz USA
Categories: Telephone Companies
17, Report:
#142804
Posted Date:
May 15 2005
Local Biz Usa ripoff Rutherford New Jersey
well i used to work there and the place is a scam they dont call in the 14 days to see if u wanan cancel there
custmer service reps are told they will be fired if they give to much credit out and the verification tapes are changed to make it sound liek you agreed to it and when th...
Entity
Local Biz Usa
Categories: Telemarketers
18, Report:
#142460
Posted Date:
May 12 2005
LOCAL BIZ USA ripoff, deceitful, poor business practice Rutherford New Jersey
My boss owns a small business and I answer the telephone there. In January I received a call from Local Biz USA wanting authorization from me. I told them I did not have that authority but they could send my boss paperwork and he would look over it. Two weeks later I received anothe...
Entity
LOCAL BIZ USA
Categories: Sales People
19, Report:
#142146
Posted Date:
May 10 2005
Local Biz USA ripoff dishonest fraudulent billing stating it was authorized by me Rutherford New Jersey
We noticed on our company phone bill a charge of $34.95 for hosting our web site. The bill indicated the service was provided by Local Biz USA and it also showed a logo for ILD Telecommunication. We called Local Biz and they said the charge was authorized and they had a verification...
Entity
Local Biz USA
Categories: Telemarketing Companies
20, Report:
#139552
Posted Date:
Apr 20 2005
LOCAL BIZ, USA Received April Phone with a $34.95 charge that I did not authorize Ripoff Rutherford New Jersey
I received my April telephone bill for my small business. I observed a charge $34.95 from Local Biz, USA that I did not authorize. I telephoned the Company and they played a tape of a person who Local Biz said was me that had ok'd the charges. The voice on the tape was not mine.
...
Entity
LOCAL BIZ, USA
Categories: Telephone Companies
21, Report:
#137896
Posted Date:
Apr 07 2005
ILD Teleservices - Local Biz USA ripoff fraudulent charges to telephone bill Rutherford New Jersey
After receiving my February phone bill, I noticed a charge in the amount of $$38.62 from ILD Teleservices, Inc.
Knowing that I did not authorized anyone to charge my phone bill for anything, I contacted the company (Local Biz USA) to find out what this was for. They told me that...
Entity
Local Biz USA - ILD Teleservices
Categories: Telephone Companies
22, Report:
#135829
Posted Date:
Mar 21 2005
Local Biz USA fraudulemt charges on phone bill Rutherford New Jersey
I received our company's BellSouth bill in November of 2004 and noticed it was a little higher than usual. I looked in the bill and found an extra charge of $36.70 under Additional Charges billed to us in the name of Local Biz USA. I looked back at other bills and found one in Octob...
Entity
Local Biz USA
Categories: Telephone Companies
23, Report:
#114852
Posted Date:
Oct 27 2004
LOCAL BIZ USA RIPOFF lOCAL BIZ USA charged my phone bill for a service I never used and called me a liar will not remove charges Internet
I called LOCAL BIZ USA to have charges removed Cecilia said we had accepted when we had not. she refused to listen when i said i did not need or could afford to have this provider. i called back and another lady
said that Cecilis was her supervisor and she would not lie that a...
Entity
LOCAL BIZ USA
Categories: Internet Marketing Companies
24, Report:
#113636
Posted Date:
Oct 19 2004
Local Biz USA.com Applied charges to my phone bill without authorization Internet
I wondered why my business phone bill was so high. I got to checking & these people call you up & say they are going to make a web site foryou at NO COST.......right, I always hang up on them because......the end result is you have to pay for that web site eventually. I don't do i...
Entity
Local Biz USA
Categories: Advertising Agencies
25, Report:
#94936
Posted Date:
Jun 15 2004
ILD LOCAL Biz USA ripoff Not Provided By Company Internet
ILD Local Biz USA called our office and asked if they could send us information. We advised them that they could. They said this was a 14 day trial and if we wanted to keep, we could fill out the paperwork and return it. We never received any paperwork, but started receiving a ch...
Entity
ILD Teleservices
Categories: Telemarketers