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Andrew Ferguson
November 16, 2006 11:34 PM
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Hey Ben,

You mention AnnualCreditReport.com a lot, but it is (obviously) US only.

Do you know of any similar services for us living in the northern wilds of Canada?

Thanks,

-Andrew

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Ben Popken
November 17, 2006 1:27 AM
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I don't offhand, perhaps other readers know of a free, scam-free, credit report checking service for Canadians?

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SexCpotatoes
November 17, 2006 1:45 AM
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Yeah, I dunno, but I was going to chime in that ours are free the once a year because it's been legislated that we are entitled to it...

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Triteon
November 17, 2006 3:52 AM
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SexC-- US residents are entitled to one free report per reporting company per year...Experian, Equifax and TransUnion.

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MeOhMy
November 17, 2006 5:12 PM
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But no mention of their OBNOXIOUS JINGLE which immediately becomes lodged in the brain at the mere mention of the name. Thanks, Ben, I'll be singing that for the rest of the day.

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adamondi
November 17, 2006 8:33 PM
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I hope the site goes down in flames. If nothing else, just to keep their insanely stupid commercials from infesting my Monday Night Football viewing.

Now if there was only a way to get rid of all the other bottom-of-the-barrel commercials that ruin MNF for me.

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madderhatter
November 19, 2006 2:15 AM
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... and Florida's AG (Charlie Crist) was elected the next governor. Work just down the street from the Capitol building.

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Knowzy
November 28, 2006 6:28 AM
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This investigation comes barely a year after Experian settled for a class action lawsuit for nearly a million dollars for almost exactly the same charges.

Credit monitoring is nearly worthless and American consumers should have free access to their own credit report anyway.

What other type of business can get away collecting dirt on you and then charging you to find out whether or not it's true before they tell your business partners and employers. It should be a crime!

Experian needs to get what's coming to them (again). If you can only get people to pay for your service by conning them into it, perhaps it's not a very valuable service!

Jeff
who says... Credit Monitoring Services are a Rip Off!

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Andrew Ferguson
December 21, 2006 10:45 PM
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I've done a bit of research into this since and discovered that Canadians *can* get a free credit report per year from Equifax and Transunion.

However, we have an additional hurdle. They only accept submissions by mail. You can find the forms on their respective websites, but you have to physically mail everything in (once you finally locate the forms) in order to get your free credit report.

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