Comments on: Privacy Matters: A Scam?

By: gloria

gloria — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:23:25 +0000

I got scammed too. I just called and they said they would refund both months. But i dont trust them. Ill have to keep checking. It was 16.00 for access to credit checks. I never ordered that. I already know my credit score is in the toilet, i sure dont need to be reminded.

By: rob

rob — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:51:17 +0000

DO NOT BUY THE IRON GYM WORKOUT PRODUCT.

CALL PRIVACYMATTERS AND CANCEL/ARGUE

CALL QUALITY RESOURCES AND CANCEL/ARGUE

i did, and also got myself into this mess. After some research and many calls, i found out that there are several companies who (borderline illegally) share personal information of members/subscribers with each other.
somehow they are able to legally do this by having fast talking salespeople make empty promises. i talked to a supervisor at privacy matters and told him “i was charged 30 bucks several times. i also cancelled several times. what product do you actually offer? if i did buy this membership, what do i even get? what tangible product do i receive?”

he couldn’t really answer my questions.

they’re all crooks, i don’t know how they can legally do this, i really don’t.

By: Ben Allen

Ben Allen — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:31:42 +0000

I just received a call from Privacy Matters. I was told that I had made
a purchase using my Visa card ending in ____ (the last four numbers on my card). I was told that I would receive a $120 free gas card in the mail, plus some discount program ($29.95 per month if I did not cancel after
30 days)and a subscription to Privacy Matters – Another $29.95 per month
if I did not cancel after 30 days. Each of these deals would result in one $2.00 and 2 $1.00 charges to my Visa.

They really pushed my agreement to be recorded over the phone. So much so
that It made me very suspecious. So I searched Privacymatters.com and landed here with you folks.

After reading about your experiences I intend to call them back and cancel
before I receive anything. Another case of “If it sound too good to be true it usually is”.

Thanks to each of you for posting your experiences with this outfit.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:55:33 +0000

Ok, so, I signed up for privacymatters123.com, but they will also automatically sign you up for privacymattersid.com. If you cancel one, they will do it very nicely, but won’t cancel the other one. After a week, I called in and said what are those charges, and the lady goes, you signed up for that too, and that she cannot refund. So I called the “ID” guys and he was reluctant to refund. But, as soon as I said, that this is a scam, they said, they are refunding. I hope to see the $$ back in the CC in 2 days. Avoid anything that says – privacy matters.

By: Cilean

Cilean — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:12:35 +0000

Well here it is again and it is 2010. I used a site called Peoplefinders.com so that I could locate a person who had stolen my Grandmother’s ring while we were roommates.

What I thought cost me $1.95 for a one time thing back in August of 2009? Has cost me over $130.00!!! I just now found out because I don’t check every single entry to my account, which is something I shall do from now on I have learned this lesson!

Then the representative said I had signed up for this service, where?

This is a scam, because it is not on one specific site but on a lot of them, and my cost was $24.95 per month!

By: Matty W.

Matty W. — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:51:58 +0000

PRIVACY MATTERS!!! ugh i am very mad, i didn’t use Vista Printing or ever try to check my credit, my luggage with my wallet and my cards in it went missing at the airport this morning so i called to cancel my cards, when looking over my old statements i noticed i was getting these weird charges since July 2009, so i called the number on the statements, when i didn’t get a real person after an half hour i Googled the company, and when i heard scam all over the place i called my credit card company, they are investigating, i am a bloody college student trying to make something out of my self and evil people like this keep trying to pull the rug out from underneath me ALL THE TIME!!!, please please please God let me get the hundreds of dollars these people stole from me back….. people are mean

By: Sam Norwood

Sam Norwood — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:26:55 +0000

They got me too on my Visa card. Incredibly, Visa called them and stayed on the phone as I talked to the person “liahandra” who said I had sighed up for a credit rating check. She agreed to remove the last charge of $24.95 and the Visa lady, who heard me protest that I had never signed up for a credit rating check thought the matter was over. But, I asked to speak to the Visa fraud department and reported it to them. They are aware of PrivacyMatters 123. I was told that all the charges from them (since last October) would be credited back to my account and they were dealing with the company in an appropriate way to protect other Visa customers. What I think is that the referring sources, crooked individuals who might be working for honorable companies, are getting kickbacks from PrivacyMatters. My credit card is being replaced with a new one.

By: Kathy Drennan

Kathy Drennan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:57:18 +0000

I noticed today a charge for $19.95 on my checking account that I was not responsible for, and when I called, I had to enter a “Member Number”. This instantly made me suspicious, so I went to Google and found this feed. Just moments before, I had ordered a new debit/credit card from my bank to prevent other similar charges from another company I had been “dealing” with for some time, and so the solution is in place. I won’t give them the satisfaction of frustrating me over the phone to get refunds. It’s a loss to me. Good luck to everyone else to encounters Privacy Matters. It is a scam, no doubt in my mind.

By: Nelson Weiderman

Nelson Weiderman — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:59:02 +0000

They’re still at it. Said I visited a site called casale.com (no such site exists today) and gave my information in June. Only trouble is that I was at a regatta on that Sunday and had no access to a computer. I also checked my browser history. If these folks are not stopped and are raking in $29.95 per pop per month from people who are not paying attention, they are getting very, very rich. Why can’t they be stopped?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:49:33 +0000

Same thing happened to me with Privacy Matters. I had 3 extra $1 charges on my credit card account from:

AP9*DEALMAX
AP9*YOURSAVINGSCLUB

and some other AP9 company.

Luckily my bank saw something suspicious and put a hold on my credit card. The best way to make sure you don’t get any more charges is to cancel your credit card and get a complete new number. It’s a pain in the $%@#$@, but it’s much safer than HOPING they don’t add any more charges to your credit card.

BTW, I never signed up for any Savings Club or DealMax that I was aware of when getting my credit report through PrivacyMatters.com.

How Ironic it all is.