How to Receive Free Credit Alerts From Equifax

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Identity theft is talked about often these days. One of the important tools that can protect you from it is to receive an email alert every time a credit application is presented in your name to Equifax, one of the three major credit bureaus. Now you can get it all for free.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

PayPal account
Internet
Email account

Step1

Go to the PayPal website and open an account for free. Sign up for a "money market" account, which requires you to provide your Social Security Number.

Step2

Step3

Type in the search box at the top corner of the web page "equifax."

Step4

Choose the search result that reads "Welcome to PayPal. You are being redirected to a secure site." Clicking on it will take you to the Equifax page titled "You have selected: Equifax Credit Alerts™ for Pay Pal, FREE."

Step5

Fill out the secure form and sign up for the Equifax credit alerts, all for free.

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Comments

ChantelAlise said

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on 1/17/2008 Always good to know the options. Of course, these things are never quite as simple as they make it sound. It used to drive my small business clients crazy; trying to pull a report for a small business loan.

Walkaboutangel said

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on 1/5/2008 Great advice

Angel

mgmt85 said

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on 1/3/2008 Great idea!!! I am going to try this immediately. Good job on the article!

grouch said

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on 12/31/2007 This is a great idea. It would be wonderful for the person looking for a home and trying to keep their report clean until the deal is sealed. Thanks.

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