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.
Like an idiot I bought in. I signed up for the 47.00 service and got billed for the 79.00 one. I signed up about 6 days ago and since then I have been constantly bombarded via e-mail trying to get me to buy into other services. I expected investment advice and I get more sales pitches. Monday I am going to call and try to get a refund, yeah good luck with that huh. I probably just received a 79 dollar life lesson. Maybe my credit card company can get me off the hook but I am skeptical about that too.
Call your card company and do a “charge back” for unauthorized charges ($79 vs. $47).
The best thing is to contact your credit card company and put these amounts into dispute. You have to show your credit card company that you have made attempts to resolve the problem with dates, times, names of individuals and addresses. :Your credit card company may decide immediately in your favor but you may have to wait for a few days. Good luck. Remember the old saying: “If it sounds too good to be true, then it generally is false.”
Have you listened to the radio ads airing during conservative talk radio shows? The spokesman sounds like the love child of Goober Pyle and Sarah Palin. That’s what the Salem Radio Network and this “Freedom Checks” scam think of you. And if Sean Hannity recommends it, he knows you’ll trust him instead of the news media or government institutions or the BBB, which also downgraded “My Pillow” — a Salem Radio Network fly-by-night sponsor — to a scam. Almost as foolish as drinking “Super Beets”. Right, Kilmeade? I weep for our future.
“My Pillow” has TV ads as well for a simple product: a pillow.
No BBB affiliation and 67% negative reviews is all the convincing I need to avoid this. By-the-way, stop injecting ploitical bias into this product discussion. Sean Hannity (or other national hosts) do not personally recommend all the products advertised on local stations –that is why you have your very own brain –to assess the validity of what is out there. Since you are the targeted customer, you are responsible for what you buy –not some conservative talk show host. Also, Hannity can recommend a pillow or any other damned product he likes for that matter.
I was watching the video and since I am disabled any extra is a plus in my pocket. Then I noticed he kept repeating himself. After 15 minutes of watching him I deciding to hit the web and see what I could find out. Just as I thought. Murphy is tattooed on my forehead as in Murphy’s law. Hell if it wasn’t for bad luck I wouldn’t have any luck at all. But there no sense in making my own bad luck over a scam. This is one 58 year old that isn’t going to fall into that BS. Thanks for the insite on this.
Mark B
Indianapolis
Why is there any need to discuss this? I mean Really WTF.
Hi Nonono; just to let u NO people like you make me sick. Your the stupid one here…… not all the people putting in helpful info here for others. You insinuate that everyone putting in info here is stupid and your smarter than everyone, with your WTF ? Your obviously too dumb to realize that your STILL PARTICIPATING in this discussion while at the same time asking everyone else WTF is wrong with them that they are STILL PARTICIPATING in discussing this subject…HELLO ? Go somewhere and mind your own business, if people want to discuss this and help others they can— no one has to answer to YOU… whoever the hell u are. Go figure and see if your not to dumb to recognize what a hypocrite u r. Your just another thinks you know it all. How bout you shut-up if you don’t have any positive input…go away. Go find another site to show you have Nonono logic.
I think he means, “If it’s too good to be true, it probably is (a scam).”
got y crzy know you r a crazy person with a very limited education and also a dirty mouth
Marc:
I’m glad I stopped by here to research this “opportunity” (LOL!). I’ve heard this Freedom Checks ad several times on radio and got an email from them. I listened to it, but was VERY skeptical. So, I Googled “Matt Badiali” and found just what I expected. I’m sorry so many people get hooked by these scams, but I always think of two things (i.e. MY Rules) whenever I encounter something like this:
1. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
2. “There’s a sucker born every minute.” – W.C. Fields
1 more from W.C. Fields movie: “You can’t cheat an honest man”
Banyan is scam. They would not honor refund request. Lost money following their “bogus” recommendation, Losers, not professionals.
Being skeptical I looked at one of the very first company’s mentioned in the advertisement,..Northern Dynasty. Its suppose to be a “Bullet Proof Company” with a “Track Record for Making Investors Rich”. Here is a quote from their unaudited September 30, 2017 Financial Statement:
“There can be no assurances that the Group will be successful in obtaining additional financing. If the
Group is unable to raise the necessary capital resources and generate sufficient cash flows to meet obligations as they come due, the Group may, at some point, consider reducing or curtailing its operations. As such there is material uncertainty that raises substantial doubt about the Group’s ability to continue as a going concern.”
Gives pause to his claim for those substantial payouts by April.
Subscribed 2 days ago. Haven’t heard anything yet. Wish I would have checked here first. Also heard it on Hannity ad. Wish Sean would check his sponsers. Dan
Call your credit card company and have the charge cancelled…you have derived no benefit
Sean Hannity and the Salem Radio Network hosts make huge money knowing that their viewers and listeners believe ONLY them, not the government; not the news media; not the FBI or Justice Department, because, of course, Donald Trump told the minions that these entities are “the enemy of the people”. You’d do better to invest with Trump’s Daddy Vladdy.
Hannity has no control over who buys air time on his show nor any other radio show.
Trump doesn’t have a daddy Vladdy…but Hillary does…to the tune of 150 million. Fact.
I am a subscriber of Matts’ Freedom Checks at Banyan Hill Publishing so I lose $50 (cancelled the renewal) – I did not buy any of his recommendations after researching theme – the stocks do not go up much and the Freedom Checks are small Dividend Checks. The testimonials touting large freedom checks must be FAKE – to earn a Div Check of $5K-$10k-$15K on these stocks you would need to invest $100K+.
Thanks sooo much for everyones input. Real experiences speak much louder and clearer than mere touts and braggadosio , and outright deception.
What’s this guys Next stop, “Jerry Springer?”….Sure, and Then he can fight with boondoggled investors…lol..