For several months, I have been baffled by the appearance of the one dollar charge against my bank statement reading, AP9*SAVINGSMART.com. At first, I thought, "Well, maybe it was a fee for the use of my bankcard somewhere. I need to be more watchful about how and where I use it."
The third month those same words appeared, I searched all my accounts, desperately trying to locate something, anything, using the words "savingsmart". Could it be a phone charge? Nothing surfaced.
But the one dollar charge persisted into a fourth month and I was angry! Now it was time to make a concentrated effort to discover who/what was mysteriously dipping into my pocket. This is when I discovered a complaint on the net, written by a member, and describing precisely what was happening to me by the company Privacy Matters123, which I'd somehow ended up talking to when I'd sought a "free credit report."
AND, it was then that I recalled going out of my way to make it perfectly clear to their representative that I DID NOT WANT TO BE A MEMBER! But he made me one anyway. Thus leading to the one dollar charge for membership (which is of no value to me) and who knows, could go on forever.
These guys are crooks using all the current advertising encouraging folks to get their credit reports for free as a method to rip off the public. Keep your distance from them. They are quick and clever in their fraud.
Tom
Pueblo West, Colorado
U.S.A.
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