The world is filled with all sorts of clever entrepreneurs that have managed to make their money through the implementation of a wise business strategy or maybe just thanks to a really good product or service. The incentive of course for the people to create that good business strategy and that quality product or service is so that they can provide themselves with a source of income that is sure to be successful and is reasonably predictable. Not every entrepreneur though is of the same noble intentions and some have indeed resorted to using less than honest tactics to make themselves a quick buck. The credit report field is one such arena where many fraudulent businessmen have sought to apply their trade and because of that the government has seen it fit to step in.
A simple surf around the channels or just a quick perusal of popular websites online and one is bound to run in to an advertisement about a certain website that provides people with a free credit report. The danger of course with these types of websites is that they are not always conducting business with the interest of full disclosure and are instead in the business of making money and that is why there have been incidents in the past involving a number of websites where the free claim has been made but in fact the service itself comes at a cost. The occurrence of these incidents has prompted the United States government to take action and to once and for all address the matter.
The way that the government has acted upon these incidents is through the FTC establishing a rule that the only truly reliable place that people can go to receive their free credit report is at annualcreditreport.com. The rule also states that any business that will opt to use the words “free credit report” in their business’ name will also have to make a reference to the actual website that is being provided by the government. There is one particular website that goes by the name freecreditreport.com that was investigated by the FCC and the result of this was that the website was made to pay a sizable penalty. The important thing for the people to remember is that there is a government authorized website that will provide people with their credit report and that taking that affair to somewhere else may cause them some inconvenience.
