What is the name of your state? Georgia
I am a single Mom who had no debt, excellant credit and was interested in backing a business for my financial freedom in the future. Due to kids etc. I couldn't afford to quite my job to start up a business. A friend of a friend had a business, however due to his partners not putting forth their funds as promised he was forced to bankrupt and dissolve the business. He wanted to start up a new business and needed $. After a year of discussions, investigating and becoming good friends, (not romantically involved at all) we set up a business bank account, hired a realtor to find a building, opened up 4 credit card accounts to establish some history with the agreement that these would only be used for business.
Within 3 months he had charged up over $70,000 and was using one card to pay the other (as we had a merchant acct.) and when I found out I flipped out. There was a good $23,000 that could not be accounted for and he said he would start paying me back with monthly payments, and to date I have not seen a dime. Through my investigation I think that this is his way of life and he has a partner who is in the process of bankrupting on over $100,000 of credit card debt and.
He has moved and changed his phone number, however I just ran across an ad he placed in a local gay magazine to give massages and now I have his phone number and I don't know what to do. My question is can I charge him with unauthorized credit card fraud and stop him before he moves on to his next victim? Needless to say my credit has nose dived because I can't keep up on all of this debt....and I am debating filing bankruptcy......what should I do?
I am a single Mom who had no debt, excellant credit and was interested in backing a business for my financial freedom in the future. Due to kids etc. I couldn't afford to quite my job to start up a business. A friend of a friend had a business, however due to his partners not putting forth their funds as promised he was forced to bankrupt and dissolve the business. He wanted to start up a new business and needed $. After a year of discussions, investigating and becoming good friends, (not romantically involved at all) we set up a business bank account, hired a realtor to find a building, opened up 4 credit card accounts to establish some history with the agreement that these would only be used for business.
Within 3 months he had charged up over $70,000 and was using one card to pay the other (as we had a merchant acct.) and when I found out I flipped out. There was a good $23,000 that could not be accounted for and he said he would start paying me back with monthly payments, and to date I have not seen a dime. Through my investigation I think that this is his way of life and he has a partner who is in the process of bankrupting on over $100,000 of credit card debt and.
He has moved and changed his phone number, however I just ran across an ad he placed in a local gay magazine to give massages and now I have his phone number and I don't know what to do. My question is can I charge him with unauthorized credit card fraud and stop him before he moves on to his next victim? Needless to say my credit has nose dived because I can't keep up on all of this debt....and I am debating filing bankruptcy......what should I do?