I was trying to check my credit report because I was worried about identity theft ( i had just had one of my credit cards compromised, and copied XXXX. For whatever reason I used Experian -- I guess because they came up high in search results. They tell you it costs {$1.00} to check your credit report, but what I later found out is that they automatically enroll you in a {$23.00} a month credit monitoring service if you use this {$1.00} registration option. I am pretty adept at spotting online trickery when enrolling in things, and never suspected that a company that has my social security number, and maintains massive databases of credit records, would have one of the most deceptive and fraudulent registration forms I have come across in some time. I was unknowingly enrolled in this program, and only noticed after they 'd charged my credit card XXXX twice ). They are refusing to refund all of my money, because they say that I " knowingly '' signed up for their service. Because I called on the day they charged the second payment, they said they could remove that payment, but not the first charge the made a month previous. After XXXX this deceptive practice, you get a lot of results on consumer complaints website about many people being scammed by this. XXXXThere is no way its acceptable for any company to do this kind of deceptive marketing, especially from a credit reporting bureau, who has people coming to its site because they are nervous about identity theft, or any host of other personal credit issues. They should be forced to stop this practice immediately, return all injured parties monies, and seriously investigated to see if this is the kind of company XXXX can trust with holding their social security and personal credit information in online databases. 

I would have attached screen shots of their registration process, but their " fine print '' is below the fold. And in the space where they display the pricing information, they say nothing at all about enrolling you in a program that costs additional money down the road ( you have to scroll all the way to the bottom and read a dense paragraph to figure this out ). Just go to their website XXXX experian.com XXXX and go through the two screens of entering information for your " {$1.00} credit report '' to see what I mean. 

I also called them, and after they deflected my attempts to get a full refund, a manager finally referred me to an email address for customer service request. I 've attached my email correspondence with their " customer service '' reps, which was unsuccessful at any further resolution. 

Thank you