Okaloosa Regional Airport (Additional evidence of Fraud)

If you go to the link www.magicyellow.com and search the keywords airport transportation service and list the city of Pensacola Fl. and scroll down to the courtesy listings for airport transportation service you will find listings for Bob's Airport Shuttle & Taxi and Airport Shuttle Destin-Santa. Both of these businesses have the same address of 9950 Emerald Coast Pkwy. W. #6 but have different phone numbers. This address is property owned by a church occording to the property appraisers office of okaloosa county florida. The 850-837-0888 is the number displayed on their vehicle for a business listed with the okaloosa regional airport that is permitted by them to pick-up and discharge customers at this airport. However, if you look at the number listed for this business with the airport it is not the same as the number listed on their vehicle. It is the 850-837-0888 number. If you were to call this number the person answering the phone will simply say airport shutle david speaking. He would further say that he will have one of his drivers there to pick you up. This company has only one vehicle and one driver. But when the vehicle arrives it will not have the business name attached to the phone number you called but could be any name of a dozen or more shuttles operating at the Okaloosa Regional Airport. Many of which have criminal records such as registered sex offender, aggravated stalking, domestic violence, grand theft and D.U.I. convictions. If this isn't enough to curl your hair I don't know what is. There are many other web-sites that have these bogus business listings that lead back to the same people. Take a look at www.emeraldcoast.com and you will see a whole list of taxis and airport transportation listing. So, how will I know the real from the imposters? One obvious clue is to look at the bisiness name, location and phone number. If all three doesn't match up it's probably bogus. If the phone number and/or address are the same but the name is different then you'll probably looking at a bogus business that is going to rob you blind! However, this isn't a fool-proof way of determining the good from the bad but it certainly will reduce the potential of getting scammed.