Bank of America Credit Card Complaint

Bank of America Credit card department,

Closing/Cancelling account Alabama

I have a credit card with Bank of America and due to charges I thought were fraudulent requested they change my credit card number which they did. At a point after that, I had called the company onstar and requested they cancel my account which they did not do and charged my account several more times. I found it odd that they were able too get those charges through since the card number they had was the old - and called Bank of America and asked them to cancel my credit card which they said they did. I have had several more charges go through from other companies even after cancelling my card because Bank of America says they saw them as revolving charges and they always let them go through and that I have to contact all the companies and cancel those myself. I told them that I always refuse revolving accounts and no company has my approval and that I want no more charges from any company to go through and they said they can not do that. They told me if any charges from any company I have done business with in the past comes in they


completely close my account and stop letting such charges come through. Bank of America says I will just have to keep getting and checking statements and deal with each company as they come through because they do not stop taking those type charges until a certain period of time of inactivity has occurred. When I asked what is the length of time, they said it is not a specific amount of time. I closed the account 8 months ago and they still let - recent charges go through 8 months later. I want the account closed completely with any and all charges blocked. It should not be legal that I can not completely cancel a credit card, and that I have to worry about still checking statements for some unspecified period of time before the bank finally stops letting charges go through on a closed account. Consumers can not know what companies will be charging the account in order to call them prior to them charging the account if the companies are doing so without approval, so canceling the card should stop that, but not with Bank of America. Also, it should not be legal that charges can go through when a company submits a charge on an old card number and they do not have the new card number, but not at Bank of America.