Sue (and others) Don't rebuke yourself for 'going on'. I started this thread and am still angry. I would happily see this group of thieving companies and their nonchalant employees go to the wall, and the impotence of the Financial Ombudsman Service ('oh, they didn't subscribe to a voluntary code of practice and don't ...

Any interested correspondents will remember that I reported Rewards Now, Highcreditscore and quickcreditscore to this service, and included accounts of others caught out by the sharp practices of these Edgware outfits. I have finally received a response, and to call it unsatisfactory would be an understatement. The FO say they will not deal with ...

Oli I sympathise entirely. I would telephone Rewards Now (I personally had no difficulty contacting them) and certainly send them written instruction by post to stop making debits. Retain a copy. PO BOX 587, Edgware, HA8 4DX T: 0845 026 1098 All the best, Farfrae

rnf I have received a holding response from the FO and will post summary of full response as soon as received. Consumer WatchDog, as a contributor has suggested, is a possibility. I did contact the Guardian, but Capital Letters, inundated as it is with often bigger tales of fraud, sadly did not pursue the matter.

Dear Jenin6 I have reported this matter and Rewards Now (or whatever they call themselves) to the Financial Ombudsman as the respondents to this thread can't all be mistaken. Credit Expert, for their part, need to acknowledge there is a problem. Regards, Farfrae

Jalexa: I think the point people have been making here is that they didn't intend to or had no idea that they were actually subscribing to these multi-headed alternatives. And, personally, after the arrogant way Credit Expert handled my own case, I have no intention to give even a legitimate credit reference agency 2p, yet alone £2, ...

A last word on this from me. Credit Expert referred to a company called 'Highcreditscore.co.uk' in association with Rewards Now. I'd never heard of and hadn't mentioned this group, and initially ignored the reference, thinking that CE might have understandably got cases mixed up. However, upon Googling I found that Highcreditscore ...

Jalexa: I know about the Credit Expert membership fee. Rewards Now explicitly stated by telephone and in an e-mail that there is such a screen. The only time I have ever entered account information directly onto any PC was for the Credit Expert 'service'. I relayed RN's reply to Credit Expect, which is why I find CE's denial and ...

The point is that account details were NEVER given to Rewards Now, only to Credit Expert on their supposedly 'safe' system. Credit Expert's conduct towards me makes their accolade as 'business of the year' ring distinctly hollow in my ears (unless the prefix 'Pontius Pilate' was somehow missed off), and I certainly will ...

Hi Helen, I am the author of the original posting on this. I have been in contact with Rewards Now and Credit Expert from Experian. Rewards Now insisted that a registration screen for their service appears upon competing the Quick Credit Score which needs to be completed and submitted. I saw no such screen and submitted no such agreement. Credit ...