Many people have been reporting what they believe to be unauthorized charges from “CHECKFREESCO* 855-506-9175 USA” but is this a legit credit card charge?

This is a number that is reportedly associated with Golden Scores LLC and the website checkfreescore.com. There also use “GFW*3GLDSCR.COM” for some of their charges.

While we have not evaluated their credit monitoring service there have been many complaints online about these charges. Based on the Better Business Bureau website it seems like while users were surprised by these charges they did — based on claims on that site — previously sign up for the associated service.

This is an Amazon.com-related charge that you might find on your credit card statement. “AMZN.COM/BILL” is often believed to be a fraudulent charge because it uses a shortened version of “Amazon” but this is generally a legitimate charge descriptor.

You can check the legitimacy of this by going to “AMZN.COM/BILL” in your web browser and you will see that the page points to an Amazon.com page explaining common misconceptions about credit card charges that might seem to be fraud but are actually from Amazon.

This charge might appear on your credit card statement as “AMZN.COM/BILL, WA 981090000” or as “AMAZON.COM*AAAAAA123456 AMZN.COM/BILL WA”.