PSA: Credit Protection from Target Expiring? Sign Up with Staples or Kmart
Many of us enjoy the real-time Experian credit monitoring alerts we get, back from when Target gave us a free year of credit protection via Experian/ProtectMyID. The bad news is that the service was...
View ArticleAccess New Credit Karma Site With Equifax & TransUnion Data Now Available
Credit Karma is a website that gives you a free credit score (VantageScore V3) and also lets you monitor your credit report. Back in late December of 2014 they announced that they would be giving users...
View ArticleAnthem Offering 24 Months Of Free Credit Monitoring
In case you didn’t know, there was a massive data breach at Anthem (health insurer) where up to 80 million personal records were compromised. Whenever a data breach of this nature occurs, the company...
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Free Credit Monitoring – New Benefit for AAA Members [Northeast]
AAA announced a new benefit in which all members will be eligible for free Experian credit monitoring via ProtectMyID. [UPDATE: It appears that this benefit is only for AAA East Central which services...
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Credit Sesame Switching to Transunion
Credit Sesame has long been a great way of finding out what’s in your Experian credit report. Besides for the FAKO score which they provide, they also let us monitor our credit which lets us know about...
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Mint.com Review: Free Credit Score, Report & Monitoring
Update: Starting October 2nd, 2017 they will be using TransUnion data and providing a score based on the VantageScore model 3. Mint.com (money management and budgeting tool) launched their free credit...
View ArticleCredit Karma Announces New “Thin File Experience”
Credit Karma are trying to make their site more accessible and useful to those who don’t have a lot of credit history. People in this situation are often described as having a thin credit report or...
View ArticleWhat’s The Best & Cheapest Way To Monitor Your Credit?
I used to have Citi credit monitoring, but haven’t used that for awhile. What’s the best way to monitor my current? Amol, of Travel Codex Fame (paraphrased) Most credit cards now come with a free FICO...
View ArticleWalletHub Review – Free Credit Monitoring, Credit Scores & Reports
WalletHub is another site in the growing free credit monitoring/scores/report space (others include: Credit Karma, Credit Sesame, Quizzle, Credit.com & WisePiggy). WalletHub’s competitive advantage...
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Quizzle Switches To TransUnion From Equifax Without Informing Users
Quizzle is a free credit monitoring site that gives you a free credit score (VantageScore version three) and also informs of you any major changes to your credit (e.g new application or late payment)....
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Capital One Expands Their CreditWise Free Credit Score & Tool To Non Cardholders
Capital One recently rebranded their credit monitoring tool, making updates weekly instead of monthly and giving users access to their TransUnion VantageScore V3 credit score (previously a TransUnion...
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Experian Now Offers Free Credit Monitoring, FICO Score & Report For Free
It was previously possible to access your Experian FICO score for free (through Discover for everybody and other card issuers for their cardholders) and monitor your Experian credit report through...
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Creditcards.com To End Free Credit Monitoring, To Join Bankrate
Creditcards.com has sent out an e-mail to users of it’s free credit monitoring service to let them know that the service will be officially shutting down on December 18th, 2018. Users are then directed...
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Credit Karma: Free Tax Returns (New Features For 2020)
2020 update: Max refund guarantee has been increased to a maximum of $100. There is now a $25 minimum Free audit defense. More details on this can be found here. December 2017 Update: Credit Karma has...
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Discover Launches Creditscorecard.com Giving Everybody Access To A Free FICO...
Update 4/11/22: Discover has announced that this will be discontinued on June 6, 2022. Discover cardholders will be able to continue to view their FICO score on their statement on the Discover app....
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