Please people don’t call us idiots until you’ve walked a mile in our shoes…then you’re a mile away with our shoes and we’re not likely to catch your insensitive ass.

Like others in the post…I DID NOT take a survey, yet my credit card was charged $19.95 by a New Named Theif…ValueMax123. They all are driven by a company named Adaptive Marketing LLC, They made it easy to be charged and almost impossible to get thru for someone to reverse the charges. You can tell them 20 times you didn’t subscribe and with an arrogance in their voice they can assure you did…operator Lisa #16503 stated my credit card would be credited in 2-3 business days. Its strange Adaptive Marketing LLC offers their customers…ValueMax123, 24Product Plus, etc. a “No questions asked” full refund policy for unauthorized charge complaints. Intellius also tricks you into another subscription called Identity Protect. Starts out as a 7 Day Trial Demo with no charge noted to your statement, but then on that 7th day they hit you with a $19.95 charge and every month after that.

I’m a simple homemaker who lives by the golden rule but I’m mad as heck and think I might just go Erin Brockovich on these people. There is clear evidence all over the web by people who have been taken advantage of. It appears Intellius is taking steps toward increasing their ill-gotten gain. I would like to see this taken to the media masses, at least save a few from the trouble these creeps put us thru and what would be sweet is to have this company be held accountable. To me its right up there with the folks who used dirty useless paper to fail our economy. If these people go public, will they bail and dump the worthless stock into our unsuspecting portfolio’s? I’ve only just begun.

You have shamed your mother Naveen!

http://epic.org/privacy/glba/

So far we have a dirtied CEO and a tricky opt-in ad, but no evidence of illegal activity uncovered. If you have enough hard evidence to build a court case, then do it.

Social Security Numbers, your date of birth, your family member’s dates of birth, prior addresses and unpublished telephone numbers do not appear in “real estate deeds and telephone directories.”

They are selling CREDIT HEADER DATA in violation of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.

According to that, they don’t sell credit data or any other personal data that’s illegal to distribute. I think they would have been shutdown long ago if they actually sold that stuff.

This is far from the truth. Intellius, (USSearch,Peoplefinder) are selling “credit header data.” This is the information credit card companies compile along with your actual credit history. By law, the information shouldn’t be made public. Who wants there SSN, date of birth, unpublished addresses, unpublished telephone numbers and the names and ages of other family members accessible by the general public?

Attorney General take note: these guys are violating our privacy. SHUT THEM DOWN!!!

One last thought - I actually think the product Intelius is pitching post transaction is better than the one I bought initially, which to me is sort of funny.

It is always amazing to me how the people who write in blogs are usually the people with negative comments, so had to throw in my comments.

If I were his son, I’d be hugely embarrassed about my father. But I imagine it’s difficult to be in such a narcissist’s family because, of course, everything is “all about him”.

As for what the company does, it’s not illegal either. They take public records that are already available online (assessor records, census records, etc) and put them in one big database. Instead of searching through hundreds of online gov’t databases, you can pay Intelius and just search once.