Free Credit Reports, er, sometime

Check out your credit rating for free this weekend

Patrick Collinson reports on no-cost access to agency records

Saturday June 3, 2006
The Guardian

From this weekend consumers will finally be able to go online and obtain,
for free, the information held on them by credit reference agencies. Until
now, they have had to pay £2 and write to the big agencies to access a paper
printout of their credit report, or pay around £10 for an online,
downloadable copy.

But this weekend a new website, annualcreditreport.co.uk will go live,
allowing consumers to check for free if they are among the one in three
people who have an error on their credit report. The company is concerned
that a sudden rush of users could overload the site - so it is rolling it
out nationally over the next few weeks and months.

From this weekend, residents of Cornwall and Devon have access, followed by
Wales and the rest of the West in July and Londoners in August.

Users will need to input their name, address, date of birth, previous
addresses and email. But because of fears that the information could be
obtained wrongfully, or used for identity theft, the first report can only
be accessed after the user has been sent a special code to their home - an
address confirmed by the electoral roll.
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Re: Free Credit Reports, er, sometime

Paul Nutteing wrote:
>
> Check out your credit rating for free this weekend

> But this weekend a new website, annualcreditreport.co.uk will go
> live, allowing consumers to check for free if they are among the
> one in three people who have an error on their credit report. The
> company is concerned that a sudden rush of users could overload
> the site - so it is rolling it out nationally over the next few
> weeks and months.

> Users will need to input their name, address, date of birth,
> previous addresses and email.

Useful information for a private company to obtain - I wonder how many mugs
will dutifully fill it all in for them?

Re: Free Credit Reports, er, sometime

On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Steve Walker wrote:

> Paul Nutteing wrote:
>
>> Users will need to input their name, address, date of birth,
>> previous addresses and email.
>
> Useful information for a private company to obtain - I wonder how many
> mugs will dutifully fill it all in for them?

Did you read the sentence after that?

tom

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Re: Free Credit Reports, er, sometime

In article <>, Tom
Anderson <> writes

>On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Steve Walker wrote:
>
>> Paul Nutteing wrote:
>>
>>> Users will need to input their name, address, date of birth,
>>> previous addresses and email.
>>
>> Useful information for a private company to obtain - I wonder how many
>> mugs will dutifully fill it all in for them?
>
>Did you read the sentence after that?

Not relevant to Steve's very valid point.
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