BehindTheMedspeak: Healthcare credit score — just another name for wallet biopsy

Certainly it's more politically correct but they're exactly the same thing ... For Hospitals Credit-reporting bureau Experian PLC said it agreed to acquire SearchAmerica Inc ... and their revenue cycle," said Kerry Williams, Experian's group president of credit services and decision [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 17:01:16

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Free Credit Reports and How to Use Them

... when consumers who were responding to an ad for a free credit report found themselves enrolled in a monthly service.  The FTC stepped in and amended the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require each [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 08:05:49

Dead Man Spending

Perhaps the fastest growing crime in the world right now is that of identity theft. More specifically, the UK identified Impersonation of the Dead ( ... , records of those who have died recently are going to be freely shared with the main credit reporting agencies and the law enforcement services. Any organisation, such as Experian who are already [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:21:07

Credit Karma Uses Ad Model to Provide Free Credit Information

According to the 2007 Online Banking Report, approximately one in three US adult consumers monitors or checks their credit score in some form or ... the score is usually only free if you enroll in a credit monitoring service. In this margin-rich industry ... . FreeCreditReport.com and TrueCredit.com, the consumer direct sites of Experian and TransUnion [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 19:39:56

Once Bitten Twice Shy: What is Credit Security Worth to You? (pfblogs.org) (pfblogs.org)

By Nora Dunn Anybody who has had their identity stolen is usually willing to pay good money to ensure it never happens again ... and Monitoring Services Most credit agencies like Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion have a credit reporting ... payments, and in some cases pleading a case for wrongly damaged credit is among the giant task list [more...]

Date: 2008-08-23 04:20:41

freecreditreport.com scam exposed AGAIN

I've often written about the freecreditreport.com scam. The website is run by the credit bureau Experian. Over at Smartmoney ... being locked into the $14.95/month credit report monitoring service that the company sells is down ... to the government-mandated annualcreditreport.com site where you can get an actual free credit report required [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 12:49:45

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