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Other Topics
- Ordering your credit report
(credit score not included)(but ask them
anyway)
- The
National Foundation for Consumer
Credit -
Instructions for ordering your
credit report. Does not
mandate a telephone number. Does
not mandate spouse's name. Does
not mandate employer's name.
- Equifax - Mandates
your telephone number.
- Experian - Mandates
your spouse's name.
- Trans Union - Mandates
both your telephone number
and employer's name for orders by
mail, but not by Internet.
- Write Your
Representative
- Consumer Credit
Report Accuracy and Privacy Act of 1999 (Introduced in the
House)
- Free Annual Credit
Report Act of 1998 (Introduced in the
House)
- Watch as the
Credit Info Center helps 3 lucky
contestants repair their credit.
- The Consumer
Information Organization's Consumer.Net
- Consumer.Net
- Credit Bureau and Database Company Discussion Forum
- InvestorGuide - The Leading
Guide to Investing on the Web
- BayHouse WWW - Real Estate,
Finance, Credit
- Accuracy.
Metro 2, a new format to
learn
- Comptroller
Criticizes Subprime Lenders Who Fail To
Report Borrower Payment Histories
- Information
to have your name and address
removed from all mailing lists
Trans Union Corporation provides
- Trans Union
offers target marketing to
Hispanics and other groups: "Performance
Data provides a unique direct-marketing
opportunity by developing and providing
lists enhanced with age, telephone
numbers, and demographics. Bankcards,
retail information, singles, war veterans,
Hispanics, and home owners are
representative selections on the file.
The combination of a complete national
file with diverse and targeted selects
allows segmentation to reach any type of
audience."
- JURY AWARDS $4.5
MILLION AGAINST TRANS UNION
- Jury Awards $200,000
to Woman Who Sued Over Flawed Credit
Report
- The rule for
companies that collect and release
information about consumers
- Direct
Marketing Technology, a provider of
direct marketing information services in
the United States has now been integrated with
Experian.
- Experian: target marketing,
direct marketing
- Experian: Direct Marketing
with Metromail
- Trans Union
and and Fair, Isaac found a flaw in their
practice of lowering scores based on
"inquiries" (people accessing
your credit report). "Fair, Isaac found
it could increase the operational
effectiveness while reducing the
volatility of the score due to inquiries." They always
make the simplest things sound so
important.
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