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Complaint Review: Identity Guard

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  • Submitted: Friday, November 23, 2007
  • Last Posting: Friday, March 19, 2010
  • Reported By:orlando Florida
Identity Guard
identityguard.com Chantilly Virginia U.S.A.

Identity Guard IDENTITY GUARD **Online Credit Monitoring Service - Rip-off Chantilly Virginia

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Identity Guard is a major RIP OFF!! The site states that they monitor your credit report and give you updated scores from 3 of the Credit Bureau Reporting Agencies.

I signed up with them $12.99/mo. Automatically taken out of my credit card. After being with them for 2 years, and continuously checking my report, I noticed there weren't any changes. The only thing that keeps updated is the inquiries. I recently purchased a car. When they pulled my credit at the dealer, I found out that my scores at the 3 credit reporting agencies were 12 points higher than what Identity Guard had shown. I called Identity Guard to cancel them. I was told that my account had problems and hadn't been updated since August. I immediately asked for a Manager. I requested a refund and was told that I wasn't going to get one because it clearly stated on their site that they use some expert reporting agency which gives you scores that are different than what the 3 credit reporting agencies give you.

When you purchase a car or a home, or whatever, and they pull your credit, they get the FICA scores. Identity Guard gives you something else. She said it points that out on their website. I asked her to go to the website and point out where it tells me that. She said she couldn't find it because the website has changed. She then said she can credit me back one month's worth to my card.

All I can say is, IDENTITY GUARD is MISLEADING. They are a MAJOR RIP OFF!!! DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS SERVICE.

I have reported them to http://www.ic3.gov/ which is an Internet Complaint Center - they partner with the Federbal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) for internet Fraud! Excellent site to use when you've been ripped off online.

Sabrina
Orlando, Florida
U.S.A.

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#1 Consumer Comment

not fraud

AUTHOR: toddm22 - dunwoody (United States of America)

While I do not have any experience with this company myself what you are describing is hardly fraud. First off, its a FICO score not "FICA." FICO stands for Fair Isaac Corporation. None of the credit reporting agencies- Equifax, Trans Union, Experian, nor Identity Guard give you an actual FICO score. What you get is a close approximation. This is clearly worded on all their websites. Your score was 12 points different. What are you complaining about?

Your complaint about nothing changing on your report is a different matter. If they truly didn't update your reports then you should be due a refund but according to you there were inquiries. So it sounds like this was happening. Anyway, when you spoke with the manager you only mention the score being different as the issue.

Bottom line is nobody except FICO is going to give you an actual FICO score. This is not misleading and certainly not fraud. We all need to be somewhat educated consumers and not claim fraud just because we didn't understand what services were offered.


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AUTHOR: jincali - Livermore (United States of America)

My husband and I just signed up for Identity Guard's Total Protection program, as we are trying to get a loan to buy our first home, and we know his credit needs some repairing (we have been working with a law firm to fix his credit for about 6 months now).  This program claims to give you reports and scores from all 3 credit reporting bureaus.  My husbands report from Identity Guard told us that his scores were 650, 653, and 655.  Each of these scores are supposed to be from Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.  Seeing these scores, we went ahead and applied for a loan figuring his score was good enough that we would be approved.  However, we were denied, and the loan officer said my husbands score was actually 584.  This is a HUGE difference... enough to mean the difference between getting approved for a loan and being denied.  I have read other reviews, and read over the Identity Guard website, and cannot find any reason why there would be such a huge difference.  I have also contacted them asking how there could be such a huge difference between what they say his scores are and what his score actually is according to lenders.  The time between the date we got his scores from Identity Guard and the date we applied for the loan was only 2 days, so I know we weren't denied due to a sudden change in his score.  What is the point of purchasing a program such as Identity Guard if their information isn't even CLOSE to accurate?  We are very disappointed, and I do not understand how a business such as Identity Guard can make such claims of "protection" and "credit monitoring"... there is something seriously wrong there.

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