I was directed to prequalified.Co by a prospective landlord, then happened to catch an email in my spam folder - informing me of my subscription to a peripheral service from scoresense.com, along with its monthly fees.
As someone who works in technology and with experience in both web programming and the web user interface industry, I am always careful about avoiding phishing scams that are integrated into other services by way of obtuse user interfaces. This one managed to hide itself so thoroughly in hidden links, that I still got signed up for something I didn't ask for, while trying to access something entirely different. As far as I'm concerned, it's clear that these user interfaces are intentionally designed to produce accidental subscriptions to services, at the very least by way of failure to correct the problem after it has been pointed out many, many times. This is disingenuous, and illegal. These companies and their employees will eventually be taken down by some combination of civil class-action lawsuits and federal laws. Unfortunately, this typically waits until a large preponderance of people have been victimized.
I won't even begin to rant about the "service" that this supposedly provides...
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