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.
I’m glad I stopped here first. Being an unemployed oil worker, I can’t afford to be scammed out of 50 pesos. Thank You!
I’m unemployed as well and I always research these type of get rich quick scheme. They just don’t make since or it’s more to there story. Like how much is it going to cost me a month.
All these scam artists pretend they want to help others become rich, like they are. Just, well, because…. they, uh, want to. Then, even though they imply that they’re rich beyond belief and raking more every month, they still want to sell you something. I guess because they’re so anxious to help you out? Well, if they’re that rich and that anxious make other people rich, why do always want to charge money? I mean — what’s $47 for someone THAT rich?
I purchased two of the Freedom Check recommended company stocks at the end of Jan 2018 based upon the promise of a a freedom check payout in Feb 2018. The checks did not show up in Feb as promised, so I waited for the company ex-dividend dates in Feb 2018 with company dividend pay dates in March 2018. I did receive the STANDARD advertised company dividend of a few cents per share, but no Freedom Checks. Proof that this whole promotion is a scam. I sent at least two messages to the Bauman Letter people regarding the promises of the checks in Feb, March and in April, if I had the recommended shares by the first of the stated months. I got one response that stated that the actual payout dates would be contained in a document titled “The $34.6 Billion Payout”. Obviously the information was not there. Luckily I did get a full refund of my subscription funds. Bottom Line: The Freedom Check promotion is a clever scam. Recommend everyone stay away from it.
HE SAYS ITS free AND THEN ITS $47.00 AND UP! hmmm…
How many of these scams have there been over the years, and nobody is ever held accountable.
Just incredible.
These appear to be treasury checks – I thought the government was operating on a deficit? Um, I have seen these types of ads before popping up on Facebook and knew it was a gimmick. Besides that, if you really did receive those checks won’t the IRS be right behind them for their share?
Although this “deal” is questionable… If they are distributions from MLFs some or all of the $$$ is not tax via the IRS. There is not enough space here to explain why but some is considered by IRS as from “depreciation or amortization”. Also if you want to sell the securities…. then you get hit with taxes… big time depending how much $$$$$ you earlier received the IRS believes was “depreciation”… Still a poor and sneaky advertisement…..in my opinion. Also none of the “distributions” are guaranteed….. Many MLP oil companies went belly up
You have to be pretty stupid to fall for this. If you do, you deserve to lose your money.
No we are not stupid, we just want to be able to believe in true investing so we that are on a fixed income may be able to buy the things that we are not able to get due to our money going for rent, utilities, and just a few and I mean a few of the essentials not all but a few of them. And then we wait until next months check to see what we may buy this time. So stupid may be the wrong word when we all just want to get by a little more then we do. And if these scammers were put out of commission, maybe we would have trustworthy people actually helping us make everyone’s life a little more pleasant. Thank you nunya you blow hard goody smart butt head.appreciate your human kindness.
Unfortunately, investing is a slow process . It takes years to see real gains,and if anyone offers something that sounds to good to be true, it always is.
If There is One Thing I’ve Learned In My Almost 70 Years On This Earth It’s This: Money Is HARD TO EARN!! There is NO Easy Money To Be Had, Ok?? Anything You Hear on TV or Radio About Getting Rich Quick is BOGUS>>>>Pure and Simple!!
I listen to the radio a lot and at night, I hear these commercials about Big Freedom Check and how the “Deadline” is April 1st to “Get the Money”. The Spokesman for the ads sounds like a Southern Redneck and What’s Really Weird is That Each Time I Hear the Ad, The Website is Different. The First Time it was “Big Freedom Check.Com” and Then “I’ve Got a Freedom Check.Com” and Then “Give Me A Big Freedom Check.Com”. How Can ANYONE TRUST This Ad if The Website is Always Changing?? I Really DO Think It’s a Scam and I Refuse To Have Anything to Do With it!!
While it’s certainly not what it’s presented as being, the changing website name isn’t an indication. That’s a marketing tool, used to let the advertising company know which ad placements are getting the most responses. The website name changes depending on where the ad is placed. Then they can track which site names get the most responses, and dump the programs that don’t perform well.
Patricia you have a great point because I heard the ad on the radio this morning, I live in Louisiana and it said the website was Freedomcheck2018.com. It sounded to good to be true and I almost fell for it being I’m 24 and on disability and barely have money to buy the necessities I need, hoping it was a honest break but I’m so glad I did my research and thank you everyone for helping me not buy into this BS.
You’ve probably seen or heard this nonsense on some talk radio show already or couldn’t sleep and watching late night paid advertisements on some obscure cable channel? Well, most of you know that I have made quite a few investments over the years and was asked about what I had thought…
First let me straight out tell you about investments. You need to be in the right place at the right time. You need to poised and doing your research not listening to some half-assed investment strategist who wants to sell you a book or magazine subscription. Two points here. (1) In any book these clear set approaches will no longer work or can be trusted but they may teach you about algorithms. 200 pages in and you will say, WTF!
(2) Magazine subscriptions are as good as the Wall Street Journal. The information you will receive are days, even weeks past so these stocks already happened and your buy-in price today will be much higher with gains already realized so you missed that boat including the pier which it was docked at has already been burned.
Ask yourself, “Why would anyone teach me the tricks to master the stock market?” Exactly! No one investing in stocks wants you in their shares, no one! I’ve been asked many times about what looks good. People would have a few bucks to invest and looking for leverage. My reply will always be, I just don’t know whereas I would never take responsibility for your loses. You have to be lucky. It really is just that simple. Investments are a gamble with no guarantees of any type of return.
ALWAYS invest money that you are willing to lose. Never invest with your rent/mortgage money or your kids college tuition on what you are being told as a “Sure Thing” or yet another “Get Rich Quick” scheme. REMEMBER in a scheme (SCAM), “If it sounds too good to be true, IT IS!
I also have a magazine subscription, so don’t be a dick!
BadDog~