{"id":133,"date":"2005-08-17T01:03:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T18:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=133"},"modified":"2005-08-17T01:05:21","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T18:05:21","slug":"feds-call-for-crackdown-on-credit-report-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/feds-call-for-crackdown-on-credit-report-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds call for crackdown on credit report deception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON&#8211;A subset of a major credit reporting company, which allegedly promised free reports but then billed customers $79.95 for a &#8220;credit monitoring service,&#8221; agreed to settle charges of deceptive marketing practices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission had alleged that ConsumerInfo.com, which also runs a site called FreeCreditReport.com, deceived customers about the free credit reports and later failed to distinguish its services from a government-sanctioned site designed specifically for such services. Experian Consumer Direct, ConsumerInfo&#8217;s parent company, is one of the &#8220;big three&#8221; credit reporting agencies that last year helped to set up that government-sanctioned site at AnnualCreditReport.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Feds+call+for+crackdown+on+credit+report+deception\/2100-1038_3-5835037.html?tag=alert\">click here<\/a> for more info<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON&#8211;A subset of a major credit reporting company, which allegedly promised free reports but then billed customers $79.95 for a &#8220;credit monitoring service,&#8221; agreed to settle charges of deceptive marketing practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}