I have been searching my family roots on and off for about 10 years. My adult children want to know who their family is. While searching on Google I kept seeing adds for people searches. I went with Gov-Records.com first because of the name and assumed that they were part of the Government. Searching is free but if you want a complete background check with address, phone number and criminal record then it's $39.95 each person.
I searched and when I thought I had the right person, I paid, then I was allowed to print the report. It didn't have any background info. So I figured I picked the wrong person and did it again. It was the same name just with a different address and I think the named spelled different.
I tried Intelius another people finder website and paid $9.95 for a 1 yr membership. Then found out a complete background check was $44.96, yes, I paid that too. Nothing, I could use to find someone, I think it had some information about whether they owned the home or not. I decided to search everyone I knew that had been in prison or jail or just regular people. Nothing again, not even me. 2 weeks later I noticed my credit was charged $9.95, $44.96, & $11.62.
I then went back to Gov-Records.com and did the same search. Not one person I knew popped up in their records. I tried one last website called CIS Worldwide. This one was free but the website looked similar to Gov-Records.com.
All this happened in a span of 2-3 weeks. I pulled my credit card statements and noticed 2 charges from CLKBANK for $39.95. I pulled up my email to check it it was from those websites and in an email from Gov-Records it's thanking me for ordering the Gov-Records.com membership and that on my bank statement the charges will be from CLKBANK*com. It also says not to reply to their email because I will not receive a response and they were right, the email bounced back.
Then I received and email from a 24 Protect Plus saying that unless I cancel my credit card will be charged. I traced it back to an email from Intelius that said to take advantage of this service so I could learn about Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Theft Response Awareness.
I tried to log onto CIS Worldwide but was unable to. The website said to log on I needed my email address and receipt number which I provided and was still not able to. So I concluded that all 3 of theses websites were actually one.
I was not able to get my money back from Visa since it would be hard to prove.
Marie
Salinas, California
U.S.A.
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