OK last night I've fell victim to a scam while looking for a local apartment. So my fiance and I found 3 really nice available apts so we sent them an email requesting information. We received a very quick reply from one of the owners telling me this whole story about how people back out the last minute, blah blah blah & said that if I pull a free copy of my credit report that will show that I am indeed interested and also save me the $50 credit check fee.
Wow ok so almost right after I completed the free credit report .com application, we got replies almost word for word from the other two owners/real estate agents requesting that we do that same thing.
Now here's my MAJOR problem with this. 1 the apartments do not exist this was a scam to get me to click on the free credit report link to generate a unique user hit. This company is paying these scum bags to mislead, no outright lie to people to get them to fill view their credit report.
Now no freaking lie, I've received no lie 37 calls on my call phone today, texts also from these damn debit relief companies saying that I've requested information from them NO I made very sure to not check any box on that form requesting information for any service.
I wish there was a way to actually contact someone that would do something about this because free credit is a sick sick messed company paying people to be this dishonest then in turn selling your information.