{"id":277267,"date":"2010-02-04T15:11:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001460"},"modified":"2010-02-04T15:16:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:16:14","slug":"experian-sued-over-deceptive-freecreditreport-com-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277267","title":{"rendered":"Experian Sued Over Deceptive FreeCreditReport.com Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/freecreditreportsued-thumb-165x115-36667.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Freecreditreport.com is getting class action sued, baby. Their ubiquitous singing ads make it sound like you&#8217;ll go their website and get a free credit report, but they don&#8217;t tell you that&#8217;s only after you sign up for a $14.95 monthly credit monitoring service. &#8220;FreeCreditReport.com tells people they will get something for free, and you do, but you have to pay for something else, and there&#8217;s not sufficient notice,&#8221; said John Balestriere, lead attorney. I agree, so I made up my own parody Freecreditreport song:<\/p>\n<p><em>Well I was shoppin&#8217; for a credit report, which one&#8217;s me? <br \/>\nEquifax, Transuion, or one called free? <br \/>\nToo bad I didn&#8217;t know bout <a href=\"http:\/\/annualcreditreport.com\">annual credit report.com<\/a><br \/>\nCause I gave up my credit card without any qualms<br \/>\nF-R-E-E should spell free, <br \/>\nCredit report dot com baby. <br \/>\nSaw their ads on my T.V. <br \/>\nDidn&#8217;t know bout the hidden costs or monthly fee.<br \/>\nNow instead of checking my credit and getting my history top rate<br \/>\nMy bank account is crying and I&#8217;m bent out of shape<br \/>\nF-R-E-E is never free, <br \/>\nless you hit <a href=\"http:\/\/annualcreditreport.com\">annual credit report dot com<\/a> baby.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Remember folks, the place to go to get your free once a year credit report from all three bureaus is <a href=\"http:\/\/annualcreditreport.com\">annualcreditreport.com<\/a>. Accept no imitations, and never give up your credit card information to get what is supposed to be a free credit report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/02\/04\/experian-sued-for-its-dec_n_449098.html?&#038;just_reloaded=1\">Experian Sued For Its Deceptive FreeCreditReport.com Ads<\/a> [Huffington Post]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freecreditreport.com is getting class action sued, baby. Their ubiquitous singing ads make it sound like you&#8217;ll go their website and get a free credit report, but they don&#8217;t tell you that&#8217;s only after you sign up for a $14.95 monthly credit monitoring service. &#8220;FreeCreditReport.com tells people they will get something for free, and you do, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}