How to Check a Credit Score Online

Video Transcript

"How to check your credit score on line. There are several ways you can do that. You see advertisement on TV, you know, quite funny ones at times, guys wearing like pirate suits and so on. There are different companies, different entities which you can do that. They're, you know, but my preference obviously would be for you to use the actual credit reporting agencies, because from there there's a higher degree of accuracy on the credit reports. And there's also a higher degree for you to protect your personal information rather than being shared with a third party who's really going to be doing what you should be doing directly through the credit reporting agencies. Example of one of these companies out there that you see the commercials on TV all the time would be freecreditreport.com. Where, you know, you see the guy playing the little computer, sorry, little guitar and all that stuff. However, on the other site, you know, you can look on the screen right here, the next part on here, will be, an example would be equifax.com, and you can go through there and figure out exactly how you need to get a copy of your credit report, and be able to get your score at the same time."