(a) Prior to charging or collecting any fee or compensation from a consumer for obtaining, providing, or monitoring the consumer’s credit report on behalf of the consumer, a credit monitoring service shall provide a clear and conspicuous written description of a consumer’s right to one free credit report per year pursuant to section 612(a) [15 U.S.C. § 1681j(a)] of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, and how to obtain those credit reports from each of the nationwide consumer reporting agencies, as defined in section 603(p) [15 U.S.C. § 1681a(p)] of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681, et seq.

(b) If the credit monitoring service is offered and fees are collected during a telephone call, the notice required by subsection (a) of this section will be offered in the same manner.

(c) A violation of this section is a violation of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1, except that compliance with the requirement that the notice required by this section be clear and conspicuous shall be enforced exclusively by the Attorney General under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-15 (2009-355, s. 7.)