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Importance of Your Credit Report

A credit report contains information on where you live, how you pay your bills, and whether you’ve been sued, arrested, or filed for bankruptcy.

Nationwide consumer reporting companies sell the information in your report to creditors, insurers, employers, and other businesses that use it to evaluate your applications for credit, insurance, employment, or renting a home.

It is critical that you make sure only accurate information is contained in your credit report. Inaccurate information can get into your credit report for a number of reasons. Often because someone has a name similar to yours their information gets added to your report. Sometimes a person gets enough information about you to establish credit in your name and goes on a spending spree with the philosophy of "buy now pay never."

Review Your Credit Report for Free

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reports:

A recent amendment to the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requires each of the nationwide consumer reporting companies to provide you with a free copy of your credit report, at your request, once every 12 months.

There are three nationwide consumer reporting companies — Equifax, Experian, and Trans Union.

The three nationwide consumer reporting companies have set up one central website, toll-free telephone number, and mailing address through which you can order your free annual report. To order, click on www.annualcreditreport.com, call 877-322-8228, or complete the Annual Credit Report Request Form and mail it to: Annual Credit Report Request Service, P.O. Box 105281, Atlanta, GA 30348-5281. The form can be printed from www.ftc.gov/credit.

Do not contact the three nationwide consumer reporting companies individually. They are only providing free annual credit reports through www.annualcreditreport.com, 877-322-8228, and Annual Credit Report Request Service, P.O. Box 105281, Atlanta, GA 30348-5281.


Value Added Access to your Credit Report

You can obtain a copy of your credit report from many vendors.

But, if you want to monitor your credit report, see your credit score improve, and help safeguard your family from identity theft, you need unlimited access to your credit reports.

You need access, not just to a credit report from one credit reporting agency, but all three agencies.

Unlimited Access to Your Online 3-in-1 Credit Report

3-in-1 Credit Report Almost unheard of in the industry -- unlimited access to your credit reports from all three reporting agencies.

With our 3-in-1 Credit Report, you get unlimited online access to a consolidated report of your credit history with side-by-side data compiled from Equifax®, Experian®, and TransUnionSM.

This gives you a comprehensive view of your credit history and also makes it easier for you to verify the accuracy of the information at each agency.

Credit Scores from Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion

Credit Scores from All Three Reporting Agencies Your Credit Scores, compiled with data from Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, provide a snapshot of your current credit-worthiness based on an evaluation of common factors many creditors use to decide whether or not to extend credit. Online members receive the positive and negative factors that impact all three scores; score comparison to the national average; and guidelines suggesting what you can do to improve your scores. Members who choose offline delivery receive this information for their Equifax credit score only.

Immediate Notification of New Credit Accounts

Notification of Credit Report Changes Almost 10 million U.S. consumers said they were victims of identity theft during the last year, according to a Federal Trade Commission study released in September, 2003.* Notify Express credit monitoring and alerts are a fast, convenient way to keep track of your information and detect the early signs of fraudulent activity and identity theft.

Notify Express can alert you to identity theft before it ruins your good credit. If a thief starts tampering with your information, Notify Express will alert you that there's a change to your file. Notify Express monitors your credit files at Equifax, Experian and TransUnion and promptly notifies you of changes so you can act quickly — if you suspect fraudulent activity.

The following items are monitored in your credit files every business day by Notify Express:

  • Inquiries to your credit files
  • New accounts opened
  • New public records
  • Address changes
  • Changes to public records
  • Changes to account information

As a CreditProtectX3 member, you can choose to receive your Notify Express alerts via e-mail, phone, mail or text messaging. If you choose to receive your alerts by mail or phone, you’ll receive them for selected changes (inquiries, new accounts opened, new public records, and address changes reported) only. However, if you choose to receive alerts via e-mail, you’ll be notified of all changes (listed above) as reported to the credit reporting agencies.

Federal Trade Commission – Identity Theft Survey Report, September, 2003

Quaterly Summary of Credit Report Changes

Quarterly Summary CreditProtectX3 carefully reviews your credit files every quarter and sends you an update that includes a summary of changes in your personal credit files as reported to Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, as well as a summary of accounts that have not seen any significant change. You also receive updated credit scores with data compiled from all three agencies. Your Quarterly Credit Update is an excellent credit management tool that can help monitor your progress over time.

Since reporting of credit information to the credit agencies is voluntary, the information may not be reported to all agencies or updated in a timely manner. Your Quarterly Credit Update includes any information that is reported as new or changed within any of the categories listed below:

  • New accounts opened
  • Inquiries made
  • Address changes
  • Identification information changes.
  • Public record items(judgments or bankruptcies)
  • Collection accounts
  • Negative changes to existing accounts
  • Closed accounts
  • Items removed
  • Credit limit increases

Understand How Your Actions Affect Your Credit Score

Online Credit Analyzer Ever wonder how opening a new account, paying off a loan or paying off revolving debt would affect your credit scores? Using Credit Analyzer, a “What If?” tool, you can see how your credit scores could change by interacting with existing accounts, account balances, and credit limits.

Credit Analyzer can improve your understanding of your credit scores in many ways:

  • See how applying for credit, refinancing a loan, or missing payments may affect your credit score
  • Understand how your credit score can change over time
  • Learn multiple ways to improve your credit score
  • And much more!

First Rate Identify Theft Insurance

Identity Theft Insurance The CreditProtectX3 Identity Theft Insurance Program reimburses victims of identity theft for certain expenses up to $20,000 (after a $250 deductible). Expenses covered include:

  • Lost wages (up to $500 per week for a maximum of four weeks) as a result of time taken off from work to deal with the fraud including wrongful incarceration. Lost wages must occur during the policy period.
  • Notary and certified mailing costs for completing and delivering fraud affidavits or similar documents.
  • Loan application fees for re-applying for loans when the original application is rejected solely because the lender received incorrect information.
  • Long distance phone charges associated with reporting or discussing an actual identity fraud.
  • Attorney fees incurred (with prior consent) for defending suits brought incorrectly by merchants and their collection agencies, for removing criminal or civil judgments wrongly entered against an Insured Person, and for challenging the accuracy or completeness of any information in a consumer credit report.

Credit Fraud Specialists Just a Phone Call Away

Personal Assiatance Understanding your credit and fighting fraud can be confusing. That is why CreditProtectX3 has highly trained specialists available Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. - 11 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Eastern, to provide one-on-one personal assistance.

Consumer Fraud Specialists are your powerful allies after a fraud or identity theft attack. They not only walk you through all the steps required to restore your credit but they also:

  • Contact the three leading consumer credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion) on your behalf to place a Fraud Statement in your credit file
  • Assist you in contacting the affected creditors and law enforcement agencies
  • Assist you in filing disputes with the credit reporting agencies
  • Send you a Fraud First Aid Kit containing important contact phone numbers and addresses, and a Contact List that a you can use to keep track of all phone contacts made when trying to clear your credit and name.


Isn't it time you began to let CreditProtectX3 can help you? Order now for our special introductory rate of just $25.95 for the first three months of service, then continue to receive CreditProtectX3 for only $12.99 per month.

You and your family -- not to mention your good name -- will be protected. You will feel safe and secure knowing that you have the best protection there is.


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