Contact one of the 3 credit bureaus. Lock down your credit. They will share your wishes with the other 2 bureaus. #Equifax #Transunion #Experian - ThreadSky

vallirose.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Contact one of the 3 credit bureaus. Lock down your credit. They will share your wishes with the other 2 bureaus.

#Equifax
#Transunion
#Experian

Reposted from Christopher Webb

Folks, I can’t stress this enough:

Lock your credit!
Lock your credit!
Lock your credit!
Lock your credit!
Lock your credit!
Lock your credit!
Lock your credit!
Lock your credit!
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himham.bsky.social•3 days ago

It isn't true that one bureau will let the others know.

When I freezed my accounts, each one told me I needed to contact the other two bureaus myself right as I was submitting.

Maybe this happens sometimes but it specifically said that it wouldn't so I wouldn't rely on it.

birdielovesdogs.bsky.social•3 days ago

They don’t share your request.

Contact all 3 directly

vallirose.bsky.social•3 days ago

They did for me

kristijo.bsky.social•3 days ago

They do not share or update with each other. You must freeze individually.

zyraph.drag.li•3 days ago

They usually will put out a fraud alert to the other bureaus if you contact one of them, but we had to contact each individually to put a credit freeze on them. We did that over 15 years ago and it's been the best thing for us!

banaifeldstein.bsky.social•2 days ago

Do they? No. They don't share. And they don't all work online. Experian is good. The other two are broken.

vallirose.bsky.social•2 days ago

Sorry for your experience but that’s not true for me. I’ve attached the correspondence from all 3 credit bureaus when I contacted one of them.

banaifeldstein.bsky.social•2 days ago

Those all say fraud alerts. They don't say freezes.

vallirose.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well you taught me something today. I contacted Equivax and put a freeze on my acct. Thank you.

mstinpa.bsky.social•3 days ago

Freezing your credit won't likely prevent government access to your data.

himham.bsky.social•3 days ago

But it will hopefully keep nefarious identity thieves from using the info DOGE is exposing to open accounts in your name.

vallirose.bsky.social•3 days ago

Well damn, but also predictable in the most corrupt sense of the word. I put a freeze on my account last month for other sinister reasons. Unfortunately, we are being attacked from multiple sources so locking down your acct is a good recommended practice imho.

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