scam website<\/a> targeting veterans. They offer a records search for a dollar but then after going through their registration process you get a screen and email telling you that you must personally contact the federal records center in St. Louis. Meanwhile they bill your credit card for much more than the proffered dollar for absolutely no service. I signed up for a dollar thinking it was worth it to me to see how the scam would play out. Today when I checked my VISA account, they had charged me not a dollar, but $18.95, for them doing absolutely nothing other than to tell me to contact the records center in St. Louis. These guys are scumbags victimizing the veteran community.<\/p>\nSeeing the charge on my VISA account, I emailed them and threatened to take the issue to the Arkansas Attorney General\u2019s office and expose them on military websites. They rolled over within a half hour, promising me a refund, which tells me they are a total scam. As you can see their website is slick and professional, the factor that led me to investigate them in the first place. In my last email to them, I informed them that if they don\u2019t take down the website I will take all of my correspondence with them to the attorney general\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
A heads-up needs to be spread around the milblog network that this website, Militaryrecord.org is a scam designed to separate you from twenty bucks in return for nothing. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yep, there are a lot of scam websites and most of them that try to help you find information are the worst. A lot of the information they help you find is available for free – like criminal records. Don’t fall for it. It would be nice if there was a database to local military records on line, but that isn’t going to happen anytime soon Remember the resistance that the DoD put up just to put the top few medal awardees and how they screwed the pooch every little step along the way – including putting Medal of Honor recipients’ social security numbers in the public domain for a few hours. Military.com had Friend Finders that worked pretty well years ago, but they let crumble into dust. There’s only the FOIA process. So keep your money in your pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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