I opened an account with Bank of America in XXXX. I had been a faithful customer with them for 10 years and never owed them any money. I had a credit card like I said opened in or around XXXX but they offered me a 0 % APR FOR A YEAR I kept asking the terms about this but they just kept telling that I could get any loan without an APR if I did this within one year as that was as long as this offer was good for. They said nothing about additional APR % charges either. It was my XXXX time so I fell for it. Turns out that AFTER ONE YEAR the loan had to be paid off or I was charged an outrageous amount of 29 %. I could not pay them all the money back because I lost my job but kept trying to. They would in no way work with me on this and financially the loan was closed in about XXXX. That was after they took advantage of me by charging late charges etc. Now the worst part is this they are lying about when this was charged off ( XXXX ) so it will not fall off my credit report after 7 years. When I approached them they just sent it to a collection agency XXXX XXXX. Whats even worse they just put that the loan was opened or charged off in XXXX and even put that as the charge off day every year from then on!! So in other words this charged off loan keeps on my record being updated every year and probably will never fall of my record at all since it is past the 7 year deadline. I gave my information and the Bank or XXXX XXXX can remove it from the XXXX credit bureaus so myself and my children will not suffer from no loans. 
