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I AM STILL BEING CHARGED FOR A TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION I THOUGHT WAS CANCELLED

William Frederick Horn
William Frederick Horn ✭
June 17, 2022 edited July 9, 2024 in General Questions


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  • William Frederick Horn
    William Frederick Horn ✭
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  • William Frederick Horn
    William Frederick Horn ✭
    June 17, 2022

    I WOULS KIKE A REFUND FOR THE TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION I THOUGHT I CANCELLED

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 17, 2022

    You are not being charged by FamilySearch - Family Search is FREE and always has been - there ARE NO trial memberships . . .

    You must be referring to some other system like Ancestry.

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  • William Frederick Horn
    William Frederick Horn ✭
    June 17, 2022

    Thank you

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  • William Frederick Horn
    William Frederick Horn ✭
    June 17, 2022


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  • William Frederick Horn
    William Frederick Horn ✭
    June 17, 2022

    Thank you

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  • Gail Swihart Watson
    Gail Swihart Watson ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 18, 2022

    If it is Ancestry, here is a link to their help article about canceling memberships.

    https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Canceling-a-Subscription

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  • William Frederick Horn
    William Frederick Horn ✭
    June 18, 2022

    No it did not i have two charges on my CapitalOne account that I would like refunded since I canceled this account by chat

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  • William Frederick Horn
    William Frederick Horn ✭
    June 18, 2022


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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 18, 2022

    @William Frederick Horn, once again: you are in the wrong place. This is FamilySearch's community forum, and FamilySearch is completely free of charge. Their website doesn't handle money in any form, ever.

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 18, 2022

    what was the description of the charge on your Capital One Account. ?

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  • Gail Swihart Watson
    Gail Swihart Watson ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 19, 2022

    William Frederick Horn I think you have enough information now to have realized that IF your Capital One charges actually say FamilySearch you need to contact Capital One and report the charges as fraudulent. The LAST thing you want to do is contact a fictitious and criminal "FamilySearch account support" phone number and authorize them to make credits to your credit card. They will not be who they say they are since you should realize by now that FamilySearch does not charge people to access their web sites. Please contact your Capital One account support people and sort this out. Hopefully your current card will be cancelled and will get a new one.

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 19, 2022 edited June 19, 2022

    Gail:

    I really have to seriously doubt the bank charges actually read as "FamilySearch" - even if fraudulent - Im guessing it was just a case of like Ancestry or of of numerous other potential sites (who do actually have trial membership) and the user forgot to close their trial membership - and later when it showed up on their statement - they were confused as to which site it was for.

    William: Please let us know.

    Thanks

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  • Gail Swihart Watson
    Gail Swihart Watson ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 20, 2022

    You never know. If it started as a phishing email, then the name on the charges would have been taken from his other emails.

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 20, 2022 edited June 20, 2022

    this wasnt fraud - this was a trial membership he knew he had (from Ancestry??) (as per his own comments) - he probably just didn't cancel in time.

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  • CDBurk
    CDBurk ✭✭✭✭
    June 22, 2022

    @William Frederick Horn

    This has been an interesting thread to follow, but @Gail Swihart Watson provided the best solution. Any time we have a credit card bill that we question, we should be working with that credit card company. They have tools to get to the bottom of scams or to verify whether or not a charge is legit because of timing. We have a knowledge article at FamilySearch that verifies we do not have "trial accounts", and anyone who has registered at FamilySearch knows that we don't even have a place in our settings where credit card information can be stored.

    https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/is-familysearch-really-free

    I am so grateful that our Help Center often has a knowledge article that can provide an answer for our guests.

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  • Carrie Ann71
    Carrie Ann71 ✭
    June 17, 2023

    then why did i have to provide my bank card info to be able to search on this site? it said a free 7 day trial

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  • Gail Swihart Watson
    Gail Swihart Watson ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 17, 2023

    Carrie Ann71 I think you need to re-read everything in this thread. FamilySearch is free. If you accessed a page supposedly FamilySearch and a credit card was required, go report it to your credit card company. Also, make sure you aren't mixing up FamilySearch with Ancestry (which isn't free).

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