Has any one mentioned services like Life
Lock yet?
http://www.lifelock.com/
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Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007
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Subject: Re: OT~ Credit
accounts....
Sounds simple enough. If your id is stolen it will take hundreds
of hours and years to get your credit report correct again. In the mean
time you will pay hire interest rates or be denied credit and you will pay
higher insurance rates.
This could all be dealt with easily with a few checks and balances. And a
little accountability.
If the system is based on a unique identifier such as social security number
(which I think is actually unlawful) then how does erroneous data get on
someones report? Apparently someone is not doing their job. A
simple penalty would stop some if not a large portion of this.
"Jon M.
Hanson" <jon@the-hansons-az.net> wrote:
If your information was stolen then whomever it was stolen from should
have provided at least a year of the credit monitoring service.
I don't think it's normally the credit bureaus that do the screwing up. I think
the companies that report data to them are the ones making the mistakes.
If you are ever denied credit for any reason you are entitled to the exact
reason why and then you are also entitled to a free credit report.
You can also get free copies of your credit report every year from all bureaus
through http://www.annualcreditreport.com.
If you find something on your credit report that you don't recognize you have
to dispute it with the credit bureau (and each credit bureau that shows it).
They then have 90 days (I think) to either remove the disputed item or provide
proof to you of why it's there.
keith smith wrote:
And that is part of my point. The credit bureaus hold us hostage
and we need to pay extra to protect ourselves from them... They should be doing
this for us.
I was one of the 46.5 million vets whose info was stolen. I went to the
credit credit bureau websites and they offered a paid service to protect
me... With just a few additions to the system such as allowing me to
configure my account so anyone extending credit under my social security number
must send me a registered letter or give me a phone call or... [add your own
way to secure your file here] ... instead they leave the system virtually
wide open.
There is no penalty for the mistakes the credit bureaus make.
Your credit is extremely important and becoming more so every day.
Employers use your credit report as part of the selection process. Car
insurance rates are base first on your credit score then on all the other
stuff. Your interest rates are based on your credit score.... Your credit
score is worth thousands of dollars every year.
Let me repeat that - Your credit score is worth thousands of dollars every
year.
Dan Lund <situationalawareness@gmail.com>
wrote:
They offer a service which if you bave it, a new account cannot be
created before contacting you by telephone. Its a Ird party service that's sold
as identity assuredness.
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From: keith smith
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The credit reporting agencies have no- accountability.
If they were fined for every error I'll be they would figure out how to get it
right.
I would like to see them offer to put my Divers License picture on my account
with a requirement that anyone opening an account verify they looked at my
divers license. Any credit opened without proof would be at the liability of
the company extending credit. I'll bet ID theft would drop substantially.
George Toft
credit report since the early 90's, and have found errors every time I
get a report. Fortunately, they are always not my accounts, and the
accounts were current.
Over a 30% error rate, and we base the stability of our country's
economy on it. Amazing.
George Toft, CISSP
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