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    Business ProfileforFirst Cash Advance

    Loan Broker

    Current Alerts For This Business

    Alert:

    STOP! First Cash Advance and First Financial Bank are scams. Do not confuse them with First Cash Advance-IL also dba Community Choice Financial.

    BBB maintains a Business Profile on Community Choice Financial at this link: http://www.bbb.org/centralohio/business-reviews/check-cashing-service/community-choice-financial-inc-in-dublin-oh-13000256

    Community Choice will never ask you to purchase gift cards in order to receive a loan. 

    BBB Tip: Advance Fee Loans

    Additional business information

    Additional Info:
    This company first came to the attention of BBB in September of 2013.  At that time a Pennsylvania consumer reported paying $184.00 with a Vanilla Reload card in anticipation of a $1,000 loan.  The company then asked for an additional $150.00 and the consumer obtained a second Vanilla Reload card.  When he did not receive the promised loan, he contacted Vanilla Reload and was advised not to purchase a third card. 

    The phone number the company is using traces back to Syracuse, NY.  

    BBB advises consumers to:
    • Confirm the lender is registered in your state to do business and license with your state financial or banking regulators.
    • Be wary of applying for online loans and especially cautious of any lender that requires you to send money before receiving a loan. 
    • Avoid doing business with anyone who cannot give you an address that you can confirm is legitimate.
    • Remember that official-looking loan documents and sophisticated looking websites are easy to copy or fake. Just because a business appears legitimate, doesn't mean it is.

    Consumers should also be aware of the potential for being a victim of Identity Theft.  For that reason BBB advises consumers to monitor their credit reports for new, unauthorized accounts that might be established in their name.  A free report may be obtained from each of the three major reporting agencies online at www.annualcreditreport.com.   

    This review will be updated when more information is available.
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    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1/5stars

    Average of 1 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    This business has 0 complaints

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    Reasons for BBB Rating

    Overview

    Check Cashing
    Pawn Loans & Gold
    Payday Loans
    Retail Layaway Sales
    Title Loans

    Products & Services

    Check Cashing
    Pawn Loans & Gold
    Payday Loans
    Retail Layaway Sales
    Title Loans

    Business Details

    Location of This Business
    Unknown, Columbus, OH 43215
    BBB File Opened:
    9/25/2013
    Alternate Business Name
    • 1st Financial Bank
    • First Financial Bank
    Business Management
    • Mr. Sam Benson, Company Contact
    Contact Information

    Principal

    • Mr. Sam Benson, Company Contact

    Customer Contact

    • Mr. Sam Benson, Company Contact
    Additional Contact Information

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    Customer Complaints

    0 Customer Complaints

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    Customer Reviews

    1 Customer Reviews

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    Most Recent Customer Review

    Terra M

    1 star

    07/15/2022

    These people are acting like they are going to deposit money into your account they use a text only app which means you can only txt you cannot call them. After they had received my information which I don't know how they obtained my banking information which I don't provide this over the phone to noone they called my bank to verify my identity and already had everything in place I called the bank I told them not to allow these people access to my account due to they were scammers I sent them a nice txt message telling them I knew they were scamming people these kind of people need to he stopped they all foreigner's you can't hardly understand what they say you definitely don't get what they say your going to get they have a way of getting your information wether you provide it or not they are claiming to be from FIRST CASH ADVANCE ******* their number is an ***** number which he goes by ********************* they other number he is using to call from when you call you can never get noone on the phone beware they are back and scamming people for their hard earned money I out a stop to it at my bank so hopefully they do not get anything it is a big waste of their time

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