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? asked in Business & FinanceCredit · 8 years ago

Best, most detailed credit monitoring service?

I pay for a credit monitoring service provided by BofA:

"Bank of America Privacy Assist" (cost $12 per month)

I just recommended this service to a friend but discovered BofA

is not taking new customers.

The service I get is excellent...I see everything there is to see, any time I want.

My three credit scores(updated every three months)

Any activity using my name, SS number, any activity to change my personal information,

or someone trying to open a new account with my info.

any public records in my name.

Any activity at all I get an "alert" within 24 business hours.

This is the type of full service I want my friend to have.

Can anyone recommend a site?

Low cost most also be considered, but efficency is the bottom line

Thanks to all

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  • 8 years ago
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    Careful, I suspect BOA will soon have a class action suit against them.

    What you have is simply not needed.

    You could put a freeze on your reports yourself for $10 per bureau.

    These programs only prevent ID theft of the purest kind.

    The kind where they open credit or a loan.

    More than 99% of this is done by a parent or close family member

    ^ Consumer Reports magazine

    Most ID theft (not real ID theft), is where someone uses a current open account.

    These monitoring services cannot do a thing against this.

    They also can't preven fraud against a checking or savings.

    They cannot prevent - tax fraud or medical ID fraud.

    Again, you have a 1 in a billion chance of having ID theft done to you unless you have scammish parents or family.

    And, if you spot in in your 3 rerports, you dipsute it and it goes away.

    The person would be easily caught since there is always an address (yours).

    Usually a child sees mail from an utility collection agency. How often caught.

    BOA is under stress for misreprensentation and false advertising.

    Not the first time a bank would try to scam it's customers.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    When you've got weak credit or have got to toughen it, then you will have to monitor it. I cant say which is better. Ideally any credit score monitoring service should display all three bureaus. Most display only one.

  • 8 years ago

    They are all a rip off.

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