Freedom Checks (freedomchecks.com) is nothing more than another online investment scheme meant to swindle consumers out of their hard-earned money.
Employing traceable stocks images into the framework of their site claiming that their users have generated hundreds of thousands of dollars and that you can to through minimum effort on your end is absolute rubbish.
Created by an entity known as Matt Badiali and reflecting a 67% negative customer review rating, as we will make abundantly clear, Freedom Check is not a credible investment solution.
About Freedom Checks
Freedom Checks employs a dull promotional video featuring numerous fabricated testimonials while promoting the ludicrous assertions of being able to collect thousands of dollars every month by taking advantage of what Freedom Checks has to offer.
Portraying their site more as an investment geared operation opposed to an online editorial, Freedom Checks composes puff piece publications on the natural resource sector, how to beat the IRS and supposedly provides access to Matt’s model portfolio which has helped some of his readers allegedly generate 262% to 575% returns.
Who is Behind Freedom Checks?
Freedom Checks is supposedly operated by an entity known as Matt Badiali.
According to the promotional video, Matt has been researching natural resources for over 2 decades and is a well-known financial strategist.
Offering a variety of newsletter publications, Matt provides financial investment recommendations through his editorials along with valuable market research insight.
What we found interesting though would be that if Matt is such as well-known strategist in the financial markets would be why he doesn’t possess any signs of an existence outside his affiliation with Freedom Checks?
Surely a respected individual of his stature would reflect some hint of existence beyond the limits of his Freedom Checks operation.
Freedom Checks Subscriptions
Currently, there are 3 different subscriptions offered through FreedomChecks.com.
Ranging from a price tag of $47 to $129 per year, the alleged focus of these publications would be to provide financial investing insight generated by Matt Badiali.
Listed below are there 3 subscriptions currently available:
Standard Subscription
- Cost: $47 annually
- Includes digital only subscription to Real Wealth Strategist
Deluxe Subscription
- Cost: $129 annually
- Includes digital and print subscription to Real Wealth Strategist
Premium Subscription
- Cost: $79 annually
- Receive Legal Ways to Beat the IRS Report
- Includes digital and print subscription to Real Wealth Strategist
- Receive How to Get Extra Social Security Checks Many People Don’t Even Know Exist
- Receive 7 Free Ironclad Tools for Protecting Your Money & Privacy in Today’s Digital World
Inconsistencies and Red Flags
Freedom Checks promotes the illusive assertion that they can help everyday consumers collect hundreds of thousands of dollars annually while providing no transparent proof or evidence.
Having to rely upon stock images to pose as their user testimonials, it is evident that the alleged Matt Badiali does not possess an ethical set of morals nor renders a legitimate service.
In addition to operating unethically through the incorporation of fictitious testimonials, Freedom Checks overseeing corporate entity, Banyan Hill, is not a BBB accredited business and possesses a 67% negative customer experience rating.
Furthermore, as experienced as Matt Badiali may be in the financial markets, there is no reference to his qualifications and whether or not he is legally licensed to provide financial investment recommendations, which probably means that he is not.
Domain Inquiry & Reputation
Freedomchecks.com was registered on June 14th, 2014 by an entity known as Jason Pell from the organization 14 West Global Technologies.
While no other entity or domain information is revealed in the WHOIS report, according to SimilarWeb their site possessed a global rank of 683,215 with a US rank of 155,536 as of February 2018.
As reflected in the report, Freedom Checks appears to be showing inorganic signs of site growth while approximately 97.2% of all the sites traffic originates from users within the United States.
Can Freedom Checks be Trusted?
Freedom Checks corporate entity possesses an overall negative rating at the Better Business Bureau while the incorporation of fictitious user testimonials as stock images indicates to us that Freedom Checks is not a trustworthy operation.
FreedomChecks.com Review – Our Ruling
Functioning as an online financial investment editorial, Freedom Checks operates in a deceptive and illusive manner.
Implementing phony testimonials of their users who have collected hundreds of thousands of dollars is misleading and eradicates any credibility this operation may had possessed.
Do yourself a favor and avoid this puff piece editorial and any financial services that are affiliated with Matt Badiali.
What I cant believe the radio stations that play these commercials are willing to ruin their reputations for this type of scam.
AGREED and Amen!!! I drove from the East coast to D/FW Texas, last week and listened to talk-radio the entire trip. I heard the nauseatingly fake “get rich quick” pitch on every single station i spent at least a half hour on. Shame on Salem Radio and it’s affiliates that whore out this scheisters scam. Sadly, I can assure them (Salem and other advertisers on their affiliates) ALL ads on the Salem network lose most any credibility when garbage like “Freedom Checks” is lent legitimacy by virtue of it’s ad rotation.
I listened to video after hearing multiple radio spots for Freed Checks. I have a background in equities and am a skeptical person, and this right away felt like the sketchy ‘buy my newsletter’ schemes that are a dime-a-dozen. It is simply investing in high dividend yield resource stocks – the yield may be high enough to generate such returns, but if it was truly this good we wouldn’t be hearing about it in such a used-car salesman pitch.
Interestingly, I realized I know Matt Badiali…kind of. I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2002-2006 and took a geology class he taught (Violent Earth). He geology cred’s are legit, but this is a pumping operation. If it was so good, Matt would have no reason to sell $49 subscriptions for a newsletter. Instead he would have simply invested his own money from years as a corporate geologist and be swimming in his money.
Like I was told when I was young if it sounds to good to be true it probably is. Listened long enough to become wary.
Its OK though—he is only taking 1,000 people for their money! I’m sure that quota was met a long time ago and he is spending current ad money for nothing LOLOL
He’s hiding behind the Publishing exemption which gives him more latitude in what he says. In the fine print, they do disclose that they are Not a registered entity and do include standard disclaimer language about seeking the advice of a licensed financial adviser. Red flags are the repeated use of the word “guatantee” which licensed entities are prohibited from using (except to disclaim that they don’t guarantee anything) and the high pressure urgency to invest before the end of the month. This could be a “pump and dump” scheme in which someone advocates/pushes investment in certain securities to drive up the price so they can sell and take a big profit. If you are interested in investing in materials companies that are dividend growers (the legitimate part of what he talks about) speak to a licensed investment adviser or broker dealer.
Great article and truthful analysis. These slicksters rely on greedy suckers to con by their big promises of wealth. Once you send your money to them you will never see it again nor will you ever see one of their so called “freedom checks”! Thanks for the great article, Terrific!
I watched this this man’s presentation for about 5 minutes. I continued to listen while doing some online research which was basically negative. Initially, i heard the ad on Sean Hannity’s radio show. Wonder why a man supposedly of high integrity such as Mr. Hannity would associate himself with this questionable company. I’m avoiding this company.
Half the time the shows have no idea what ads they are even running.Several months ago I saw CNN running ads for their shows on the Fox News Channel. Curious as to why Fox News would run ads promoting their competitor I wrote to Fox News and asked. Apparently they have companies that sell blocks of ad time to various “ad brokers” who are paid to fill those slots with ads. Half the time the ad brokers have no idea which shows they are filling the ad slots for. I’m sure the Sean Hannity show is no different. They probably pay a company to fill ad slots to generate revenue. And that ad company, in turn, probably pay ad brokers to line up various ads to fill ad slots. I’m sure they also have their in-house ad people for the large accounts but to fill air time they outsource for smaller business ads. This guy likely bought ad time from a broker, who doesn’t care what you’re selling as long as he can get a slot filled, and then the broker turns around and sells a block of ads to various companies looking to fill their air time.n my example Fox News had no idea that they were running ads for CNN because of this and I’m sure Hannity similarly has no idea he’s running ads for this scheister. What’s ironic is that if they bothered to watch their own programming, they’d see the same things that we see.
Some people would have the integrity to ensure they don’t endorse obvious scams–Hannity isn’t one of them. It will be interesting to see why Michael Cohen considered Hannity a client, while Hannity laughs it off…
I bought into this program and found out in three weeks that it was a fraud. I invested in the stocks and get dividends, but absolutely zero freedom checks. It’s a con, a big fat con by a no neck fat guy who apparently must hide his throat that spews nothing but lies. Do NOT invest in this garbage. They con you with more and more ‘experts’ in the area who also want money for their digital garbage. Including Paul Mampilly, whose video presentation is identical to the Badiali scam. The SEC should put these liars out of business.
I listened to 15 minutes of this speil and it didn’t tell me anything other than people making money, money, money. I would not ever waste my time or any of my money on somebody that rambles without giving any solid details.
Is this a scam. Like a lot of other marijuana penny stock scams
Helly John,
The employment of numerous stock photos and fictitious user testimonials certainly does arouse suspicions regarding Freedom Checks legitimacy. As indicated in the review though, we found Freedom Checks not to be trustworthy and advise all consumers to avoid their misleading editorial subscription services.
Hope this review has helped you out.