Opinions below are provided by Charlie Mattingly, who is president of the Better Business Bureau serving Louisville, Southern Indiana and Western Kentucky.

   
 

Requests for BBB help come from many places

Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009
by Charlie Mattingly

I attended a high school basketball game with my sons on Tuesday night.  While at the game, my younger son talked to a friend who was concerned that his brother may be losing money to a "shady business."  He asked my son whether the Better Business Bureau had information about the business, which is based in Elizabethtown.  After checking the BBB's information, it appears that "shady" is a fair description of the business practices encountered by the brother.

The "shady business" offers credit repair.  Problems in this industry are so widespread that the credit repair industry in one of a handful of industries which the BBB has identified as having "inherent problems."  This determination results in a BBB rating of D or lower for any firm having the "type of business" designation of "credit repair" in the BBB database used to generate BBB ratings and BBB Reliability Reports®.

This friend's "credit repair" case provided the information which was discussed in my "Taking Care of Business" segment on WHAS radio this morning.  CLICK HERE for more information about this credit repair situation.

Comments

I have been looking for an honest work from home job. I get so many calls and emails, from so many companies, claiming you can make serious money with us. I try to log in at BBB.org to check out these companies, and I don't have any luck find out information about this company, so I think then it must be some sore of scam.
Can anyone help me find an honest work from home job.
I thank you in advance. Phyllis
Comment By Phyllis At 1/22/2009 3:50 PM

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