Intelius

I will never use this ever again, they sucked me in with a free trial and never provided the billing statement which is so common of any NORMAL business to offer a receipt of the purchase, I paid $29.95 for a monthly reoccurring trap after the free trial ended for over a year! Yes I was being billed 30 dollars a month for 1 year and 3 months... without knowing. I never received any emails under my payments so I never knew. I never knew until I checked my banking app and saw Intelius 2223 some random weird thing I didn't recognize, so of course I looked it up, I felt so scammed, this is a scam and the story gets better. Readers grab your tea because I called them!

Turned out only 1 of 5 addresses I have been registered at in this state. No email, number, nothing on my arrest record. Also tried searching for known criminals with no result. This company is a scam.

Whatever you do don't use this. They tricked my daughter into buying a $ .95 trial. She cancelled within the time frame and they charged me again. They won't refund it because they're scamming people and it's the only way they can make money.

I signed up for a one week trial advertised as 95 cents. The service yielded no useful info, so I canceled immediately. Two weeks later I'm hit with a 7.95 charge for the service. They don't outline their terms clearly and are profiting off a shady trial that doesn't actually cancel. The product is useless and they will charge you regardless of whether you cancel the trial or not. Don't use them under any circumstance. I have now filed a dispute with PayPal, hopefully it is rectified shortly. Super annoyed.

The company was totally useless in getting information that you need. AND THEN three weeks later I was charged another 7.95 after I canceled. When I tried to use the service initially it said it was .95 cents. Maybe it's my fault that I did not read the fine print BUT the company certainly did not advertise very boldly that I would be charged a further price 3 WEEKS LATER even tho I canceled the membership immediately after realizing how useless the information was. Use the white pages. They are more convenient and will not slip into your bank account 3 weeks later when you are not looking.

Paid for a one time people look up. The only information I received was the information I had entered. Also was informed that to cancel within 7 days is costing me an additional $7.95. What a rip off.

I am a law enforcement officer so I used this service to remove my own personal information from the database and to do some background checks myself. Not only is the information absolutely outdated and the interface is horrible (you don't have the option of cancelling your account yourself unless you call them WHICH IS RIDICULOUS), but the company makes unauthorized purchases on your card! I looked and saw they made two $30 charges on my debit card without my consent, which I fought to have refunded, along with a random $7.95 charge that they actually refused to give me back because I cancelled my account.

I paid $.95 to get a reverse phone number. Never got it, so I canceled my account after a few days. Then I received a $7.95 charge to my PayPal account. Intelius Customer Service said I had selected the Premier Service at $29 annually, and there is a one-time fee of $7.95 to cancel. They will not refund the $7.95. I certainly did not want the one-year service. How did they scam me into that? Do not deal with this scam company!

I search for an unknown caller number on the web. The results said data was available and provided a link to Intelius. Their offer on the web was $0.99 to provide caller identification. You are in reality being signed up for a $29.95 monthly membership in Intelius Premier plus you pay the $0.99 with a credit card. They were not able to produce any identifying results, so I called to cancel the monthly membership. The invoice says "You will be charged a $7.95 one-time fee if you cancel your membership and do not use your first background check voucher before [date], which is 7 days from today." Watch out for this tactic. There are plenty of other paid searches out there that are more clear what your one-time charge will be. I will never use them again.

While I was traveling on vacation earlier this year, I used Intelius to find an old address. The cost of that transaction was 95 cents. I didn't know until today that the 95 cent purchase automatically enrolled me in their premier plan, resulting in Intelius charging me via PayPal for $29.95 per month. Their marketing practice is quite deceptive, and do not like the fact that monthly charges begin and are only stopped when you call them to cancel. I know a lot of businesses do that, and I hate them too. (Grrrr... now where's that voodoo doll?)

I never even signed up for whatever service you provide. Yet, you charged my debit card $29.95. I don't even know who you are or what you do, all I know is that my $29.95 had better be back on my debit card by Monday or my lawyer will be in touch with you for unauthorized usage of a debit card. You all are authorizing charges by an internet company called Intelius. You are in violation of customer protection statutes. Customers have incurred so much money on their credit cards or debit cards because they don't look at their charges and they don't dispute them, however I do. Therefore, I expect a full refund of $29.95 as soon as you get into your office on Monday. If not, my lawyers will be in touch with you. The Better Business Bureau has already heard from me as well as about 400 other people. So you really need to take your scam somewhere else. People in America are on to you, you cannot get away with it anymore so don't try.

I signed up for a one-time request. I was double billed which overdrafted my checking account. When contacted, they said it was a buy one get one free and that they were sorry but they would give me a free request. Look you have cost me $37. I want my money returned, I’m never using their service again.

Use common sense. After you purchase your first report, you get directed to a page that BLATANTLY asks you if you want to sign up for their recurring service and directs you to esign with your email then hit the big YES button or, underneath that, just hit the NO THANKS button. Everyone, just read things before you click or you won't do well online. Secondly, as far as for my interaction with the company, the report I purchased had been "mixed up" with that of someone with a similar name in the same area so I chatted the support team. The rep reviewed it, apologized for their being an issue with the report and conceded my full refund then confirmed that I was not on any recurring billing. What else could you need from a company?

This is the worst company I have ever dealt with. I paid $39.95 for a background check that had no information in it. The free portion of their check had more info. On the free info it listed the relatives and education of the person I checked but when I got the report that was blank and of course the person I talked to when I called to complain could barely speak English. Save yourself some money and do not use this company.

I had decided to do a search on my ex husband when I got some money. The search was $6.95 for the basic search. The information contained in the report was WAY out of date. There was no new information. The information contained in the report was 5-10 years old. When I called to make sure my credit card would not be charged again for a membership, I was told I would be charged an additional $7.95 for canceling. Just google who you are searching for and save the $15. You will get more up to date information.

I looked up information online about an individual. I decided to use Intelius to add to what I found on my own. What a mistake. Their report found about one tenth what I found and some of theirs was inaccurate. They were very expensive $69.00 compared to other such services and the report was essentially useless with inaccurate and out of date info. Never again!

Scam!!! Only wanted telephone number from someone and willing to pay the $1.95. When the receipt showed online they added $19.95 plus two $1.95 charges. Called and tried to cancel immediately. Girl said they would take the 19.95 off but not the $3 charges (it was discounted she said from 1.95 each). On the phone for 15 minutes NEVER got report. After arguing with them about it I clicked on the "get report" it was an old phone number!!! That's all I wanted!! I'm now so annoyed I will have to contact my VISA to get the small amount removed. I will do this as I am so annoyed with Intelius and want everyone to know what a scam this is!!!!

It is very difficult to cancel. The information you get online to do this isn't accurate. There isn't a "cancel" option under "My Membership" services. The "Help" in Intelius is no help, either. I finally found the way by accident. It's on the Intelius Premier Plus page with "My List", "Search", and "My Account" on the top header (I have no idea how I ended up on this. Sorry). The default page you land on in the Intelius Premier Plus is "My List" where there is options to search underneath it. You need to choose the "My Account" page link on the top header to get off that "My List" page. On the "My Account" page is "Membership Information" and under that is a blue link that lets you cancel. This is NOT at all what's on any instructions online. If you don't go out of your way to cancel, your credit card will be charged every month until you do. This is unacceptable to make it so difficult.

My experience with Intelius was not good. In fact, I found the company without any integrity. When I sought the company out online they claim to be running a promotion of .95 and if they didn't find a result to my inquiry within 3 days they would refund the .95. Also if I canceled my membership within 7 days they would not charge the $29.95 monthly fee. This is what is stated, "You will only be charged a $7.95 one-time fee if you cancel your membership and do not use your first background check voucher before 02/05/2018." The misleading part of it is "am I not using the first time voucher with my order #** which was dated before 2/5/18?" The company wasn't able to complete my request at the end of three days so I canceled my membership promptly (within the 7 day period) and then I get charged the $7.95 at the end of the 7 days.

I don't really understand all the bad reviews. Every one I've read basically said that the obligations were right there (just in small print which is no different than each and every company under the sun) and that they only read them AFTER signing up. Who does that? The funny part is after a friend showed me the site and I started digging around and looking into it (before finding any reviews) I noticed the free, unlimited 2 day trial. Unlike most Intelius gives the trial withOUT your credit card or any personal info which is also rare. I've been working on the free trials and I've looked up over one hundred people easy.

I hate your guts for lying to me and all your customers. I wish I would of never used your company. I was told it was going to cost only $1.00. Got billed on my current statement for $1.95. The information was old and at least 15-22 years old. You are paying for nothing and bad information. Called today 1/19/2018 and wanted to cancel my membership and asked them if I would get a credit for the $1.95 and was told that there is NO cancellation of my account and that I would continue to be billed the $1.95 for using this service. But they said again if I use the service instead of the $1.00 charge only it would be $7.95 to look up one number. I said I wanted this $1.95 credit on my bill credited back to my credit card and they said it was NOT going to happen.

As many people stated, I also purchased a one time request. I received the confirmation email with the 7 days free trial of Intelius membership, which I did not requested. When I read it carefully, I found out that after my free trial expires, they will charge my card for 29.99 a month, but if I cancel it within 7 days and did not use their service during these 7 days, they will just charge me for 7.95 dollars. So, they charged my card for the service I did not even signed up for... How could this company even exist??

1. Signed up to do a 1 search for .95 and the info provided was no better than what I found in 5-minutes of searching the web. 2. A week later received a charge for $21.95 for a Premier Plus Membership which I did not sign up for. When I contacted them said, "To get the special pricing you agreed to a year Premium Plus membership, the details which were presented at checkout" (in fine print, at bottom of page). They refused to refund the charge. What a shameful way to make money.

Signed up to receive ONE address. They charge you for an ENTIRE YEAR!!! DO NOT under any circumstances use this company. They will not refund my money which they had no permission to take in the first place. I don't understand how con artists like this are allowed to continue. Anyone else would be in prison.

I went to Intelius.com for a background check. I agreed to pay for one check at $19.95. They also signed me up and billed me for $49.95 for one month - without my permission. That is $19.95 + $49.95 for the one service. They then apparently lied to my credit card company and said I had signed up for a single check plus a month of checks.

Intelius removed money from my bank account without my explicit knowledge or permission. There were absolutely no service or product rendered in exchange for the money Intelius removed from my account. After contacting Intelius several times to explain the details, Intelius terms of service would NOT return the money even though NO services were rendered. I made a small one time service purchase. Intelius states that a clause during checkout entitled them to continue to bill for NO additional request for service. The clause was not prevalent (hidden) because I was careful not to agree to or did I want any service contract throughout the initial purchase. Most companies, with a reasonable business model, would consider this overlooked mistake grounds for a full refund. Intelius has chosen to take the low road of hidden fees and contracts with a policy of not returning money for NO SERVICE RENDERED.

This company's website leads one to believe you are only paying for this 1-time service, when in fact they will bill you $29.95 "membership". I did a reverse phone number search and their database is so bad... I received a name, but I know for a fact that the person has been dead for almost 10 years. This is a fraudulent operation that counts on you not reading the small print and then they just pocket your money. Disputing their fraudulent charge with PayPal did not work, but, if you used PayPal, you need to change your password immediately as it automatically cancels their "billing". Bottom line, AVOID, DON'T USE, BEWARE OF FRAUD! You can find better and honest service elsewhere.

Like many other 1 star reviewers, this company's website leads one to believe you are only paying for this 1 time background check on a person, when in fact they will bill you $19.95 every month by not clearly stating that is what they are going to do. The option to NOT HAVE monthly billing is very difficult to find. So like other fraud type businesses in past, they make enough money by these overcharges... counting on busy people not noticing. They've billed me at least 6 times of $120 for NO SERVICE. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THESE SCOUNDRELS. Call center is offshore and maybe even the owners are too.

Do not use this people search company. They give you an option to get a report on someone for $6.95. I was fine with that then a few days later I found out they were going to charge my card $29.95 every month. I was able to find that out by going to another page and found that out in small print. I immediately cancelled the service and because I cancelled the service within 7 days they are going to charge my card an additional $7.95. They are sneaky. I bet many customers were being charged the $29.95 every month and they did not know it. Best to avoid this company big time for their shady advertising practice. I was very upset they tried to trick me.

Retired officer and always looking out for my family, I turned to Intelius to perform a background check for my brother. The person was someone out of Florida. I authorized a one time fee of $14.95. The BOTCHED report came back on a person in New York. I emailed & complained, they said they would credit me a background check. Ok. Well I guess having a credit floating out there must mean you now have to maintain a membership fee of $19.95 per month. Not!!! I've contacted them to cancel the credit, and I want ALL of my monies back. Poor background check, and a scam!