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From: llama@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joe Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Re: Credit checks (was Re: TRW Credentials Service)
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.222422.1771@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 91 22:24:22 GMT
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Given the stories I have heard about TRW (that they won't give out your
credit report to you unless they think they've been contacted - that their
"Credentials" service only gives you a small portion of the info they
send to client businesses), it seems that what is needed is a business
which pays TRW for it's services (just as your bank would) and then charges
it's customers for obtaining their credit report for them.  At least then
you would know what the other businesses were seeing.  Does anyone know
a place like this?  Will some banks do this for their customers?

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