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Whether you’re shopping for a mortgage or auto loan, dealing with debt collectors, or buying a home, it’s crucial to check the accuracy of your credit report. Here you will find information about credit report errors, and ways to protect your personal financial information.
10/24/06 - Credit Reports/Online Shopping In her September column, M.P. says she drew from her own experience trying to download her annual free credit report.M.P. outlines the problems she found in trying to obtain her free credit report, and offers tips on making the process as easy...
04/27/06 - Credit Repair - Bonfire of the vanities Before declaring bankruptcy amid a cyclone of scandal on 2 December 2001, Enron’s advertising slogan was “Ask why”. Ironically, however, Amer ica’s seventh-biggest corporation - worth over $70bn before its collapse - fostered a culture in which the very notion of “asking why” was aberrant...
06/01/05 - Eligible for a Free Credit Report- The Fair Credit Reporting Act requires each of the nationwide consumer reporting companies — Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion — to provide you with a free copy of your credit report, at your request, once every 12 months…
06/24/04 - Credit Report Errors are Common - 79 percent of credit reports examined in a recent survey contained either serious errors or other mistakes of some kind…
06/29/04 - Credit Errors and Rising Rates- 25 percent of the credit reports studied contain mistakes significant enough that a lender would reject the credit application…
06/17/04 - 1 in 4 Credit Reports have Errors - One in four credit reports has errors serious enough to disqualify consumers from buying a home, opening a bank account or getting a job...
07/17/00 - Victim of Credit Fraud - For the past five years, credit reporting firm Experian thought Lisa Morris of Oxnard was a deadbeat with overdue bills and a delinquent conscience. |