The free call I booked has a pre-call form asking for my credit score

That form is a qualification form. Credit score and available cash tell them your budget, and the spouse question tells them whether one call closes or two. It doesn't make the person a fraud, plenty of decent educators run their intake exactly like that, but it does tell you what Thursday is.

Go, and go prepared. Fill in the ranges, or leave the money fields blank and see if anyone chases you, which is itself a useful signal. Then take control of the first ten minutes. Say up front you're happy to hear about the program at the end, and before that you have three specific questions about your own situation. Actual questions, written down, on the thing you watched the videos for.

What you're testing is whether they'll answer something concrete for free. Someone with real depth will give you a straight answer on pricing a service business because they have plenty more where that came from. Someone with a script will keep pulling you back to the program.

When the offer comes, and it will, don't decide on the call. Ask for the price in writing, the refund terms in writing, and two current students you can contact who they didn't hand pick. Anyone who won't sit still for a 48 hour think is telling you something. The pressure is the product in that case.