ALERT : YOUR NAME IS BEING SOLD!

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ALERT : YOUR NAME IS BEING SOLD! TAKE ACTION NOW!

Darren Meade
November 4, 2006


Here's breaking news you need to know...and you need to let all your family and friends know right away as well.

Having credit checked is an important and necessary step in the home buying process, as well as something that is done on a regular basis for any number of reasons; increasing a credit line on your Visa, applying for insurance, or buying a car.

But very few people realize that each time their credit is checked, the "inquiry data" that the credit bureaus (Equifax, TransUnion, Innovis or Experian) has on file has now become a commodity. This information is being sold by the credit bureaus to other lenders...and also to companies that sell and resell the same names and personal information.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/art...rticleID=16015

-->..."The Consumer credit reporting industry has provided a way to OPT OUT and remove your name from these lists. You can contact them by phone at 1-888-567-8688 or at www.optoutprescreen.com. "

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There are also other ways you can opt out of receiving pre-screened offers. The phone number is different depending on the offer and the credit bureau involved, but you can find it somewhere in the junk paper that comes with the offer, usually on the back of the first page in a grey box.

I've had a lot of trouble with those numbers though. They are totally automated and you have to give a lot of information, and they don't repeat your name back correctly. Maybe I mumble sometimes, but I've also got a stage voice. I can enunciate my name quite clearly when necessary; it's bull that they can't remove me because the computer can't understand my spoken spelling.

They have to make the opt out available. They don't have to make it easy. :roll:

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