Site: www.freescore.com
Free Score which prominently features Ben Stein on their homepage has recently been purchasing ad space across many large ad networks. One area of this website that concerned us is that they do not have any information on being BBB accredited. If they have accreditation, we recommend that they place this information on their website.
Free Score Company Information
Address:
FreeScore, P.O. Box 5152, Des Plaines, IL 60017-5152
Email Us:
MemberSupport@FreeScore.com
Phone Number:
1-800-316-8824
The site (FreeScore.com) is encrypted so providing your personal information to Free Score should be safe. Remember this is a 7 day trial, if you do not like the service, you may contact them to cancel your membership.
38 www.FreeScore.com Reviews
I tried to get my credit scores from free score. It took forever!!! The page takes forever to load, so you end up sitting in front of it for about 10 minutes! And I have high speed internet!!!! Absolutely Ridiculous!! Don’t waste your time!!
Plus that actor should stick the clear eye commercials!
What a frightening experience!! After seeing the ads featuring Ben Stein as the pitch man I think, he is an economist and seems a respectable public figure, this must be a safe site. I set up an account. I was unable to access my credit score results so I called for help. They had very old information listed (old loans, and credit cards long payed off and canceled). The woman did not seem to know what she was doing. She said she reset my account and if I waited for 10 minutes I could log in and access my credit score info. I did this and that is when I saw complaints posted. I canceled the account. I just hope that the account info that I gave is safe.
this is sutch a scam its supose to be free but yet they want your credit card or debit card , to me thats asking to mutch info and if you for get to remove your self from there free trail offer you get nailed for 30.oo a month in charges and if you dont do it they reflect negitvley on your credit report so you loose for trying to gain in long run 30.oo plus thear late fees and ther other fees you just get bent over but thats my opinion
Here you’ll find only complaints… It’s preety obvious if you had a good experience with a company you won’t be running online to give them a good review (or at least most people won’t).
They offer a 7 day trial so we’ll get ALL that was advertised for free.
A person who doesn’t read fine prints when singning up for ANYTHING online…They better unplug the net cable.
and how hard is to give them a call or email them to cancel ?
instead of crying.. let’s just be thankful that they give us, the cheap people, that info for free and let us cancel right after we printed off all reports.
(Now.. if we’re gonna argue that the reports should be FREE-for-ALL by law… I agree, but that’s another discussion..)
Forgot to cancel your trial? BOOOHOOO learn for your mistake and move on.
;o)
I have trying to contact your company for the past 16 to 18 days with no avail. I did not sign up to be a member of your company. The membership number your company gave to me is the following: [REMOVED]. Please be adviced that at no time did I sign up for your service. If you need to contact me call me at 305-416-[XXXX] work or send me a latter at [REMOVED]. And also I have tried to email you and call to no avail. Please process this information ASAP. As I will not pay for your company’s membership. Thank for you attention in this matter. Your company needs to have an easier way to contact a sales representative that we can speak to. Thank you again.
I agree with Alisha
If you forgot to cancel, don’t blame them and come here crying. Read the contract before you click the Join button..
First of all Steve and Alisha,what do you say to people who log on to a page for information only, then you are contacted a month later saying that you purchased a program you have never heard of ,and they have been charging your credit card but you never gave them your credit card number or information. Some company use adware, and spyware to get your infor, and then your stuck and baffled and really don’t know who to go to. It happens more then we want to admit, but we can sit behind a computer and judge. You were not there and you don’t know what when on, yes some people need to read the small print, but why every sec, pop ups and spam is on every page, you can read your mail or other pages cause someone has a survey that turns into offers for crap you don’t want, or don’t need. Yes you can say you need to be smarter,but how smart can you be when every thing stack against you even technology!
@Carlos Garcia: Much of your personal information was removed. Contact the company directly. This is a review site and is not affiliated with FreeScore.com.
Anyting that is free should not require a credit card.
The “free” offer is just a scam to get a credit card number.
I just thought I would give you all a quick education on the defination of the word “FREE”! Free means you don’t have to pay for it! Has our country become sooo stupid that you can’t remember the meanning of the word FREE?
Every “Free Credit Report” site I check out has a spot where I have to type in a credit card #. If it’s free why do you need a credit card #? I always get denied for credit cards, and I would like to know why. But because I need to use a credit card to get a “Free Credit Report”, I guess I’ll never know! People like you who try to B.S. everyone should be taken out and shot in the A–! That’s where your heads are!!!!
A Pissed Off American!
I went thru entering info on Webscore’s application form, but at the end I decided not to go through with it. I did not click on “accept”, but instead on another link on the same page. Page disappeared and I have learned from a recording that I accepted by clicking on any link on that page. I checked my credit card stmt for the $1 charge for 7 days, but there was none. Low and behold, on the 8th day the charge appeared backdated 7 days! Too late to cancel. The next day I was charged $29.95. I was scammed and chalked it up as another lesson. Today, 13 days since the start, again a charge of $1 appeared. It worked once for them, so why not try again to sucker me. It looks like there are a lot of little Madoffs out there. I will contact Ben Stein, I am sure he didn’t give his name to Freescore to pickpocket people. Stay tuned. Pls. contact me if you had the same experience, perhaps I can start something to get rid of these companies. My email is: janfokkema@gmail.com
Have a great week!
Their site is completely misleading. Not only does it state FREE all over their page, but as you register it even shows a receipt like page that shows $0 for each service offered. Having read the Terms of Service I began to question their membership. Nowhere on their site do they show you that you are signing up for a 7 day trial to be charged $29.99 a month thereafter.
On a brighter note, after providing all the needed information, they did provide a neatly laid out consolidated credit score and report. For checking in on my score, for free, it was worth the trouble. If you don’t intend to pay the monthly fee, make sure you cancel within the first 7 days.
freescore.com is a scam.
They charge $60 after 7 days, a fact mentioned only far down in the fine print of their offer for a “free” report.
They are listed in the Better Business Bureau. The BBB gives them its lowest rating, ‘F’, for the owner of the site, Vertrue. Vertrue is noted for a wide variety of scams in the past and operates many web sties and many mailing addresses:
http://www.bbb.org/nebraska/business-reviews/advertising-direct-mail/vertrue-in-omaha-ne-107000028
CANCELL MY APPLICATION
i woud like my credit score
cancel my application i filled out on Dec. 13 2009 I do not wish to be a member. I only wanted the free report as stated in the Ad. Your ad is very misleading and should be made clearer.
I was checking this site before going to FREECREDIT. Seems to me most of these types of sites are the same. I used one for CCC a few years back and two years later they were still hitting me for $12 a month. When you signed up on their old site.=, it stated that you had to update your info after thirty days or you would be REMOVED from the program to avoid NON-VOLUNTARY billing. Fortunately I printed off that page and was able to get my money back. Like Barbara said, everything is stacked against you. Check with your banks, sometimes they will run a report for ya.
Here I try to get my credit score by way of FREESCORE.COM. Give all my info, and then.What do you do?You ask for my credit card numbers. Now how can this be a free credit score when you ask for a credit card number? Not good if I we’re to give you a score. Zero would be my score for you.
Mr. Garry
I went and filled out all the INFO you needed to give me my FREE SCORE and then. What did you do. You asked me for my credit card numbers.Did’nt know you needed credit card numbers to give FREECREDIT SCORES. If I could I would give you ZERO,
Mr. Garry
I have been done by freescore.com – they promised to provide a credit report and I paid them via credit card but they cannot raise any report. Now they refuse to refund the payment and now I have had to cancel my credit card for all the bogus transactions on it. I am now receiving odd emails about my credit score which I have never received until around a week of registering with freescore.com
Shame on you freescore.com you are the very scammers who you claim to stop – you are disgusting.
I’m always suspicious of any website that offers a free service through a medium (TV) that cost them millions to utilize. – Think about it.
If you are really looking for the “Free” credit report service, you should use AnnualCreditReport.com. It is a centralized service for consumers to request free annual credit reports. It was created by the three nationwide consumer credit reporting companies – Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
AnnualCreditReport.com provides consumers with the secure means to request and obtain a free credit report once every 12 months from each of the three nationwide consumer credit reporting companies in accordance with the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act).
AnnualCreditReport.com is the only service authorized by Equifax, Experian and TransUnion for this purpose. Any other site is only after your money, your credit card or both.
Annualcreditreport.com’s web site states this ” Please note that, as a security precaution, Consumers should never provide their personal information to any other company or person for requesting free annual credit reports under the FACT Act. AnnualCreditReport.com will not approach consumers via email, telemarketing or direct mail solicitations.”
Hope this helps. I use this site personally and just pulled all three of my reports without giving them a dime, a credit card or creating an account.
was i try to new about more my score
Mr. Michael W. Strand Do you really expect these people to spend the money to build a website and pay for advertising so you can “Freely” take advantage of the work which they put forth at no cost to you? I read ALL of the fine print and I have been charged exactly what they promised. 7 day trial for $1. If I chose to keep the SERVICE, it is $29.99 a month. I think you should take some anger managementclases and realize that NOTHING is “FREE”; it either cost you or someone else. I suggest you rethink your idea of economics and reconsider being a simple consumer and try producing something sometime. i.e. pay for your credit report for once. I think it is a good service. P.S. Freescore.com refunded my $1 as promised when I canceled (three days early) as to avoid any mix ups. Live and learn people.
Does ANYONE know how to contact this site so I can cancel the supposed FREE items before they start to charge my account…BTW: I NEVER was able to view my scores….
This is a scam do not sign up. I made the mistake of signing up and then I could not confirm my identity for some reason so I called them and cancelled right away as I dont want any charges. Low and behold I get charged 14.95 anyway a few days later. So I called the bull **** company and they said that there was two things I needed to cancel one was freescore and the other is identitycheck. Get a life fu**ers!
Look — I’m not a shill for freescore, but when something works, I don’t think it’s fair to ding them. I signed up, gave them my credit card, got my 3 scores and 3 credit reports, and canceled my account, all in about a half-hour. The hardest part was verifying my ID, which required putting in a lot of current credit account numbers or old addresses. But I finally got through. Yes, it’s creepy to have to give them a credit card #, but that’s how they survive — depending on folks not to remember to cancel. But shoot, if you can cancel immediately (I did this at 1AM!), it seems like its legit. (Of course, I haven’t checked my credit card statement — I’ll be back here if they charge me, but I doubt seriously they will.)
BTW, I did NOT signup for anything that wasn’t required (e.g., the email notifications or the Public Records Report). So I only had to cancel ONE thing, at 800-316-8824 (same as the number given above.) I only had to enter my account # (which had been given on a previous screen) and press “1″ 2 or 3 times in response to questions on the phone.
Fraud is the single word, i need to describe them with. They charged my credit card even after I canceled the account. Even when I had an account, my credit score was 0. How can any have a score of 0? They charged me for a service that they didn’t deliver. So thumbs down..(They did refund the money, but I dont trust them)
Ashok
This is not free. $1.00 fee means it isn’t free. Besides I don’t own a credit card. Never have. This is a scam to get your credit card number. Thats the reason for the $1.00 fee. They won’t give me my credit score.
Normally, if it sounds toood to be true it normally is. I opened my aol page and the Ben Stein advertising banner was on there. I thought, free credit score in three easy steps…not….It asked for some personal info and then $1 to charge my credit card. Well, I didn’t get a credit score on the first attempt so I went through the same process 3 more times. Each time it said it was unable to process my report. I checked my credit card and there were 4 $1 charges. Also, they get you involved with a company called identity24. It does say in the fine print that by entering into this agreement after 7 days you will be charged a monthly fee. I contacted my credit card company to file dispute and not let any charges be applied to the card since they were pending. Next cancel your credit card and get a new account #, they will send another one in a few days. Contact freescore at 1800-316-8824 and identity24 at 1-800-307-4564 give them your account numbers –follow the directions on how to cancel and cancel your membership. Don’t wait for hours trying to talk to someone. Believe me I’m sure they don’t want to talk to you…
NOTE: If you recently applied for credit somewhere and was denied, you have 30-60 days to contact Equifax, Transunion and they will give you a free credit report.
If you would like to share your experiences with me or have any questions email me at asasek@aol.com
SCAM!
I read the fine print when putting in my credit card number. I was under the impression that it was safe and they needed my number to look up my score. (Which the did.)
7 days later, there’s a charge. I somehow knew that was going to happen.
If it says “Free” on the internet. RUN.
There’s multiple pop-ups to random sites to sell you garbage.
I never even received my score because of all the nonsense you had to go through in order to potentially find it. I said forget this Sh*t. Which is what the likely want you to do.
I’m a freakin nerd and had difficulty getting to the point of this site.
Watch your bank statements people. Never trust Ben Stein or a talking Squirrel.
I told sternly, I’ll dispute it with Bank of America. The lady said they could look at the fine print themselves. I told her fine, let them, they probably won’t find it either…!
She gave me my refund of 20$. I watch my funds, times are tough!
I am P##ed off that ben stein would pitch this. They ask you for all your personal, information, and I repeat PERSONAL. They collect that with the promise to give you a free credit report. BUT not until AFTER they collect this information from you do they REQUIRE your credit card info.
In my opinion, that’s dishonest. Why not disclose before collecting your personal information that FREE requires a credit or debit card number and a subscription that you’ll have to remember to cancel.
I quit at that point, but I feel violated, they have my information collected for who knows what purpose, and I have NOTHING. And still don’t know my credit score.
Ben Stein and Freescore.com, you should be ashamed.
Wow. These people are cracking me up. You can get your credit report for free once per year from annualcreditreport.com, but you can’t get your credit score without paying money to the three main services.
Sites like freescore.com offer other services. If you sign up for them, and don’t cancel before the cancellation date, then you’re now paying them for their monthly service. It’s not a scam. And it’s explained well on their website if you people could just read. They’re willing to provide you with the scores for free because they’re hoping you’ll keep your account and pay them monthly for their service.
DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE SCAM. YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE NOR SEE YOUR SCORE!
YOU WILL BE CHARGED $19.95 FOR NOT RECEIVING THE INFORMATION YOU SIGNED FOR- JUST USE THE REGULAR ROUTE OF THE THREE REPORTING CREDIT BUREAUS.
IF THIS DOES HAPPEN TO YOU CALL THEM AT 1-800-316-8824 AND THE MONEY WILL BE REPLACED.
could not find my state when filling out form. last i new iowa was still one of the 50 states
Please except this as a cacelation of my service with your company. I am very unsattisfied With your service. PLease be aware further billings to my account will result in legal action.
FreeScore, like any other company is going to have it’s share of complaints. It may have some issues (of which I have not experienced as yet) but it is not a scam. I applied for the 7 day trial; after I liked what I saw I just keep the service. It has served me well! I have been educated via the articles and good advice they provide. Don’t just look for a score or simply view your report. It’s more than that. Take advantage of the tips they offer and provide and then do them! Every person’s credit score is unique to them. Find what applies to you and work the mess out of it. My score jumped 42 points in 30 days because there were 3 errors that were found and removed from my reports. This is as ‘free’ as it gets…read the fine print…do your research and be thank ful we don’t have to wait forever to obtain our scores anymore!!!….NSupport of FreeScore
I’m reading some of the reviews and I’m a bit confused.
This is a website to check your credit score. How would they check your credit score without a credit card number? Do they automatically know which Chris Johnson or Stephen Garry that they’re working with? No. And all the people saying that it took forever to load…it was probably one of these two things: 1) you have a slow computer or 2) you have a long credit card history. So you think it takes 30 seconds to check your 10 credit cards? Which all probably are bad credit?
It’s also not their fault if ya’ll don’t cancel it within the 7-day trial. It’s emphasized over and over again on TV and on their website that it’s a 7-day free trial, but after that you have to call and cancel. It’s not hard dialing the 1-800 number they provide.
My friend had done the 7-day trial and cancelled it before the 7-days were up, but still got charged the 19.95. She called back and talked to a representative they were sorry about the mistake and they gave her a full refund and cancelled her membership for her.
Everybody on crying about how it’s just a website to take your credit card number is a little on the sllooowww side. Read the fine print before you do anything on the internet. Common sense kids, common sense.