MyLife.com Reviews
MyLife.com is a website familiar to many people due to their extensive advertising on television and across the web.
The My Life service claims to be able to connect users with past friends and acquaintances and to let them discover who's searching for them online.
How Does it Work?
MyLife often claims that it will let you know who is searching for you 'for free', which is technically true, though quite misleading.
Once you enter your name into their site, it will give you some information such as "5 Men and 11 Women are searching for you", including some more specific examples like "A 32 year old woman who lives in Anytown, USA and attended American University is looking for you."
However, to get the specific names and details of those that are searching for you, or the details of the people you are searching for, you must first become a paid member of the site.
Is My Life Legit?
There are numerous complaints about this company all over the internet, and some of the accusations made are fairly serious.
These include, but are not limited to:
- MyLife provides search results that are inaccurate and sometimes even fabricated to entice one to become a member.
- MyLife 'hacks' your email account and spams your contact list with invitations to join MyLife.com.
- MyLife asks you to authorize your credit card to be charged a certain amount, but then charges you far more and more often than permitted.
The first claim centers around the fact that MyLife.com provides you with a glimpse of the people that are looking for you, in order to entice you to become a paid member.
Once you do become a paid member, however, you may receive a list of names that you may be completely unfamiliar with.
Angry customers argue this is because MyLife is fabricating the list of supposed people who are searching for you in the first place.
One customer was so convinced of this, he entered his name as random string of characters, somethin like "sfg shgshdhsg" for example, and was informed that seven people were searching for him.
Secondly, the privacy policy of MyLife.com does admit they will scan and send invitations to your email contacts, though they claim they will only do so with your permission.
While the argument has been made that simply becoming a member of MyLife is the act of giving permission, many complaints have been filed by people who say they never became a paid member of MyLife, but their email accounts were hacked anyway after they visited the website.
Finally, the Terms and Conditions policy states that when you sign up for their services, you are also signed up for the services of third party companies, though these third parties and the cost of their services are not listed.
In addition, the Terms claim that only some of the website's functions are considered free with membership, while others would incur additional fees. However, nowhere on their website do they explain which functions are included and which cost extra.
As a result, customers have experienced signing up for membership on one day, and sometimes within 24 hours their credit card has been charged with multiple extra fees that they were unaware of.
Other customers say they expected to pay a low amount for their monthly membership and ended up with almost $200 in charges after the monthly subscription came due.
These claims and others have been outlined in a Department of Justice lawsuit filed against MyLife.com.
If you have any experience with the MyLife.com or their services, please leave your reviews below.
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I got used!
False reporting of damaging information
They said I had criminal charges and lawsuits also people were looking me up. I paid for the basic one time fee. When I got the report it said I didn't have a record and it listed 5 different blurred out liens.
I then investigated my self through the court system, no liens against me either. This could completely ruin someones life. These people are publishing false information . They should be sued and put out of Business.
Got Absolutely Nothing For My Payment!
Absolutely horrible. I just paid $9.95 for a screen that was 99% blurred out. What a scam. Don't waste your money unless you ready to sign up for the $179 special!!!
They suck you in! I never intended to become a member, I was going to SHUT DOWN the computer for the night, and BING! the scree said, CONGRATULATIONS sucker! You just got billed $239.88 for membership. I immediately crapped in my pants ( not literally, I told them I was sorry that I accidentally "must have" Hit the wrong button.
They do have some information on me, I am living on S.S> I'm 80 yrs. old in poor health , and they want me to pay $239.88. This company is horrible. The government has been on them for misinformation etc. THEY SUCK! I will be calling my Credit card Co. These people are worthless.
OOPS! I forgot to tell you they are shameless crooks. And...they suck.
I've got the rest of my life to taunt this "company" obviously, I am not a happy camper. it's a scam folks. It's too late, if you are writing a comment. You've been had.
They suck you in! I never intended to become a member, I was going to SHUT DOWN the computer for the night, and BING! the scree said, CONGRATULATIONS sucker! You just got billed $239.88 for membership.
I immediately crapped in my pants ( not literally, I told them I was sorry that I accidentally "must have" Hit the wrong button. They do have some information on me, I am living on S.S> I'm 80 yrs. old in poor health , and they want me to pay $239.88.
This company is horrible. The government has been on their ass, for misinformation etc. THEY SUCK! I will be calling my credit card company! These people are worthless.
They suck you in! I never intended to become a member, I was going to SHUT DOWN the computer for the night, and BING! the screen said, CONGRATULATIONS sucker! You just got billed $239.88 for membership!
Immediately Overcharged
All I wanted was my ex-wife's age, so I searched on their site, It was getting late, time for me to say nite, nite, and I GUESS I hit the wrong button, All of a sudden the screen shouts "Congtas Sucker, You owe us $239.88
I HAD previously used this site, in which at that time I entered my Credit card Info. I assume I will be charged that amount, I begged with them to forgive my grave error, I sent them 2 emails, NO RESPONSE.
Here's a cutie, I was looking for a phone # for this co. I Found 2 numbers for 'Customer service'. NO live person on both of the numbers, they gave me an email address instead. I think I did that twice b4. No REPLY. I understand, I CAN CANCEL WITHIN 15 DAYS, I am not waiting, for the bad news, I am reporting this company to my credit card company. This company is more fraudulent than trump!
Suckers! You have probably been scammed already, that's why you want to see what you got yourself in. You just got screwed! Wait until you see how much $$$$ you just got taken for. I am sincerely surprised these folks haven't gotten hit by the Government! BTW, they suck!
Total B.S. DON"T FALL FOR IT!
I ran the initial "self search" 3 days ago, of course I had to provide an email address. It ran thru all the steps and took me to the point of signing up and paying. I noticed it indicated 2 people searching for me, 1 man and 1 woman. I left the site without signing up.
Today I received an email saying there has been changes that might be lawsuits etc. I clicked on "review updates" and it took me back to their site and ran thru all the steps again and took me again to the point of signing up and paying. This time (3 days later) it indicated 514 people found are searching for me, 46 men and 46 women....So, in 3 days people searching for me went from 2 (1 man, 1 women) to 514 (46 men, 46 women). 46 x 2 = 92.
This is baiting by using false info to cause panic in order to manipulate us to sign up.
My experience is so much worse than the above. Chose the one month for 17.99 as i work with a lot of questionable persons at work - Ex cons who are still at it at night. but the choice of one month non automatic charge was ignored and i received TWO AUTOMATIC charges from paypal , which look like they will go nowhere. am out 324.80 . Of course there is no contact from MyLife. All phone refer to email, all email ignored. Looking into filing legal charges against these criminal bogus background check. Also , do not bother with CheckMate. At least they do have a customer service but also overcharged me - I was able to get a refund.
These People are GANGSTERS, out and out thieves, deceivers, fraudsters, I can't say enough BAD things about this Fake company. There is NO contact person or company reps to talk to, They have recorded message stating, You have to email them, They haven't answered me yet.
IF they think they are going to put me on the hook for $239.88 US dollars, My credit card will be notified Tonight, so that when they get billed, they have some "splainin" to do.
Does this CRIMINAL company have more than a ONE star rating? what does that say to you?
Get a Email confirmed cancelation
I cancelled the same day I ran a search . Received incorrect info and then called to cancel. I was given cancelation # and told I would receive a confirmation Email. The day after I was charged almost $50.00. No cancelation ever sent! Total scam...
it seems that they are much worse now.
MYLIFE is trash!!!!
Don't waste your time
A piece of crap website with false claims and error filled garbage.
Scummy and dishonest
The name they gave me was my first name with my high school ex-boyfriend's last name (and obviously, we were never married). No clue how they got a hold of that information anyway, that's very creepy. I went in to see my report out of curiosity, but freaked out and left when I realized the website could be planting cookies in my computer and stealing my personal information.
The website itself says while finalizing a report that they can collect all the addresses to the places you've lived in, with satellite images. If that's true, and people can just access it by looking it up, this is a dangerous website.
B.S.
MyLife is a complete scam. Never signed up for a paying membership., so they do not have my card info, thankfully. But, what they do have is info about me which is completely inaccurate. One of the names they claim is an alias I have used in the past is actually my Dad's name. They also claim I have several court decisions against me. I have none. They have my places of residence completely backwards. I can only hope that potential employers, and neighbors, new friends, or whatever do not use, or believe this site.
Limit of premium membership is 3 searches per month
They actually responded?! Wow. I have sent many texts, phone calls and have come to believe that they have let their answering machine do the sole business of referring to email, which I do not believe that they read.
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think they know who people are, who they are related too and all their personal and private information. Sadly, this site puts people's lives at risk. Most of the information in inaccurate and flat out wrong. Don't waste your money or time. This site does not provide accurate information nor are they qualified to provide you with a true background report.
Signed up for $1 trial, they charged me $99.00
They made an unauthorized charge to my debit card for 99.00. I had signed up for a $1.00 trial.
Don't Waste Your Time
Complete SCAM website
I did a 3 day trial and the same day, went in and disabled automatic renewal. It says in the FAQ's that doing this will cancel your premium membership.
Well, they charged me EIGHTY dollars anyway a few days later!!!
BEWARE OF THIS WEBSITE !!!!!!
Its all a scam to get money
Should be investigated
Yes!
They are horrible
Mylife would release some criminal background info
I feel scandalized
This is the creepiest thing I have ever seen. I was googling my name to find a photo of me with my siblings on my page on a different computer than I normally use. This came up with my age, where I live and the names of my family members. I feel scandalized and I haven't even paid for anything. Why on earth would this come up when my name is googled.
No one should be able to access this information without my consent. Based on the other reviews, people who are scammed may also end up receiving inaccurate information about me. Why aren't these scammers in jail yet?!?!