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I signed up for a 14 day free trial , and was disappointed to see that your information in your credit report for me was inaccurate as I have current Equifax, Experian, and Transunion in front of me. I signed up last night and would like to cancel this 14 free trial and would like an email with a confirmation number
so I can be assured that I will not receive any charges from this on my credit card. I appreciate you taking the time to resolve this, please send this to my email so I do not have to contact my credit card company to dispute any charges
my email is michaelevanmann@yahoo.com

Thank you. Michael Evan Mann May 23, 2013
Privacy Guard responds to this letter appropriately
And states in this letter I will not be charged unless this letter is a Gaff somehow implying I am being charged now but to prevent future billing

Dear Michael Mann,
Thank you for taking the time to email us at Privacy Guard.
Please be advised your membership # 72021462 was cancelled on 05/23/2013. Your cancellation number is CT3377705232013. This will eliminate any future billing Due to the time required to customize and send out your membership materials upon enrollment into Privacy Guard, you may still receive those materials, even though you have just cancelled your service.
Thank you for trying Privacy Guard, and if you would like to become a member in the future, please do not hesitate to call or visit our web site.

Thank you,

Ellen, Your Privacy Guard Representative.

LAST LETTER I RECEIVED, THE ONE THAT IS TELLING ME ABOUT A PAID TERM TILL JULY 4, 2013 14 DAY FREE TRIAL MEANS THAT!!!!!!!
This email is to confirm that your Privacy Guard membership has been cancelled. Please note that you will continue to have access to your benefits until the end of your paid term on 7/4/2013.This 14 day free trial within less than 5 hours after signing up for this so called free trial… I will enclose the Letter I sent and the response I received back. If your company thinks I am going to be charged till July 4. 2013. I got news for you; this is the wrong guy to screw with. I got plenty of time to invest in calling my bank and reporting your company as committing fraud,
Then contact your Attorney General Connecticut, George Jepson and the Better Business Bureau, and I happen to be a Blogger with an audience of over Three hundred thousand people who read my blogs on a daily basis, and the Cherry on top will be I will sue you into next week. You have till tomorrow 11 am to respond otherwise I will assume you intentions are not resolving this as a responsible business. Then I will take the appropriate actions to dispute this and go after your company. Then you will have to worry about guarding your own Privacy. Because by the time I am done the word on your company will be more than just out on the street but even worse all over the web. DO THE RIGHT THING.
It appears your company has a long history of Fraud, to think I am from Connecticut not too far from Stamford, so my neighbors are crooks.
The following describes a pending government action that has been formally brought by a government agency but has not yet been resolved. We are providing a summary of the government’s allegations, which have not yet been proven.
On December 31, 2010, the South Carolina Attorney General filed a First Amended Complaint against Affinion, Inc. and its subsidiary Trilegiant.
The Complaint alleges violations of the South Carolina Unfair Trade Practices Act (SCUTPA) including, but not limited to: using aggressive sales tactics to enroll South Carolina consumers in unwanted membership clubs; misrepresenting and concealing material facts and/or failing to inform South Carolina consumers about the “memberships” when such facts were well known to, or readily ascertainable by, Defendants; charging hundreds of thousands South Carolina consumers for services the consumers do not use and are unaware they have purchased; initiating electronic fund transfers from South Carolina consumers’ credit, debit or other accounts for the purpose of enrolling them into Defendants’ “membership” programs without first obtaining a valid authorization for such transfer; unlawfully, unfairly and deceptively marketing and selling illusory “membership” programs in South Carolina; and, creating barriers designed to impede Sough Carolina consumers from canceling “memberships” or receiving refunds.

The Complaint seeks: a $5,000 SCUTPA civil penalty for each method, act or practice deemed to violation SCUTPA; an Order enjoining Defendants from engaging in such prohibited conduct and restitution.
The Complaint is currently pending.
The following describes a government action that has been resolved by either a settlement or a decision by a court or administrative agency. If the matter is being appealed, it will be noted below.
On October 4, 2010, Affinion Group and its subsidiary Trilegiant (Affinion/Trilegiant) entered into an Amended and Restated Assurance of Discontinuance with the New York Attorney General.
According to the settlement, Affinion/Trilegiant must fully refund fees charged to consumers who unknowingly enrolled in or authorized billing for Affinion/Trilegiant discount clubs and programs; permanently end its practice of marketing discount clubs and programs by mailing checks to New Yorkers; permanently end its practice of obtaining consumers’ billing information from online partner retailers; reform its online marketing practices to ensure consumers understand they are enrolling in a program offered by Affinion/Trilegiant for which they will be billed; and, make redemption forms for rebates immediately available online to consumers. In addition, Affinion/Trilegiant must establish a five million dollar fund to provide restitution to consumers, and must pay an additional three million dollars in penalties and fees.
For details of the action, consumers may contact the New York Attorney General’s Office at 1-800-771-7755.

They replied today saying that someone signed me up using my SS#, email, credit card number and under the name “Cara Childress.” They did cancel my account, but I am still worried about my credit, so I will apply for a credit report when I get home from work today.

This is so worrisome. Ridiculous.

I asked them for the IP address recorded during my “registration”. They changed their tune IMMEDIATELY and offered to cancel and stopped selling me the product. They put a new person on the phone who told me they did not have access to the IP address, and they didn’t even know what it was. Mind you they kept telling me my credit card info may have been compromised, blah, blah. This leads me to believe that they are actually involved in FRAUD. An IP address is always recorded when registrering online up especially when sensitive personal information is recorded. If the IP is in Africa and you are in the US this is a huge red flag. Most CC companies monitor this information for fraud attempts. The fact that privacy guard changed their behavior when I asked for this leads me to believe they are involved in registering people on purpose without their consent.

Perhaps some lawyers could beat this info out of them and prove they are actually committing criminal fraud?

FYI, Try asking for the IP address recorded during the registration process…. they seem to be afraid of this question. Hopefully they offer to cancel your “account”