Why does this have Willys in the title?

Bill, not trying to start anything but on the bottom of the page you posted a link to, it says there are certain exemptions the state has allowed so companies can see your credit report. Several of the data warehouse companys have said they have sold info about people to criminals who were posing as companys. again, not trying to start something.

Patrick ?Ô

Hehe. I'll take your word on it. (uhmm, are you sure?)

Totally irrelevant, but that never stops you does it?

Yup, pretty sure..

-Brian (fanning the flames in Usenet pissing matches since 1998) ;-)

Well I'll be dipped in dog doo. In the famous words of someone a whole bunch more belligerent.....I stand corrected. :)

You can opt-out of unsolicited credit and insurance junk mail offers, but you have to renew it every five years. Since the big three credit reporting companies share information you need only opt-out with one and the others will copy it. It has worked for me.

In general, opt-out programs suck. If I want a product I'll find it and opt-in, thankyewveddy much.

L.W.(ßill) Hughes III wrote:

Lee Ayrton did pass the time by typing:

Interesting.. they take the information on the phone or tell you to go to their website. A website that by the way does not have a direct link from experian.com Supposedly this is optoutprescreen.com but it's registered through GoDaddy and uses a DomainsByProxy shield so you can't see who registered it. That rings all sorts of bells for identity theft. If it was a legit business site why would the contact information have to be hidden?

Perhaps because they contract the service out to a vendor and not do it in-house? As I recall all they wanted was a mailing address and name, nothing more personal or useful. In any case it cut the flood of credit card offers from a few a day to a few a quarter. YMMV.

Lee Ayrton did pass the time by typing:

I went there and they wanted not only my name and address but my SSN and phone number (unlisted and on the DNC registry).

Since it's possible to contact the credit bureau directly I'll take that route. Color me parinoid.

-- msosborn at msosborn dot com

Lake Ontario beaches from a little east of Toronto all the ways west to Niagara are closed for good.

Snow...

Tom Levigne proclaimed:

What's your point?

Hey, be nice. It isn't his jeep that is ugly, it is Bill! In penance, bring him *three* cases of Canadian horse diabetes test.

Cherokee-Ltd proclaimed:

... post horse at that.

Snow proclaimed:

Jealous??!?! Of that thing? Hahahaha..

I think not.