Update 4/11/22: Discover has announced that this will be discontinued on June 6, 2022. Discover cardholders will be able to continue to view their FICO score on their statement on the Discover app. Website states: Service Update: After... Read More →
2020 update: Max refund guarantee has been increased to a maximum of $100. There is now a $25 minimum Free audit defense. More details on this can be found here. December 2017 Update: Credit Karma has added a number of new features:... Read More →
Creditcards.com has sent out an e-mail to users of it’s free credit monitoring service to let them know that the service will be officially shutting down on December 18th, 2018. Users are then directed to sign up for a free credit... Read More →
It was previously possible to access your Experian FICO score for free (through Discover for everybody and other card issuers for their cardholders) and monitor your Experian credit report through credit.com. Experian have now made both... Read More →
Capital One recently rebranded their credit monitoring tool, making updates weekly instead of monthly and giving users access to their TransUnion VantageScore V3 credit score (previously a TransUnion New Account Model score). They have... Read More →
Quizzle is a free credit monitoring site that gives you a free credit score (VantageScore version three) and also informs of you any major changes to your credit (e.g new application or late payment). When they originally launched they... Read More →
WalletHub is another site in the growing free credit monitoring/scores/report space (others include: Credit Karma, Credit Sesame, Quizzle, Credit.com & WisePiggy). WalletHub’s competitive advantage is that they update data... Read More →
I used to have Citi credit monitoring, but haven’t used that for awhile. What’s the best way to monitor my current? Amol, of Travel Codex Fame (paraphrased) Most credit cards now come with a free FICO score, so use those for... Read More →
Credit Karma are trying to make their site more accessible and useful to those who don’t have a lot of credit history. People in this situation are often described as having a thin credit report or thin file and they are usually:... Read More →
Update: Starting October 2nd, 2017 they will be using TransUnion data and providing a score based on the VantageScore model 3. Mint.com (money management and budgeting tool) launched their free credit score and monitoring (not to be... Read More →
Credit Sesame has long been a great way of finding out what’s in your Experian credit report. Besides for the FAKO score which they provide, they also let us monitor our credit which lets us know about inquiries made to the... Read More →
AAA announced a new benefit in which all members will be eligible for free Experian credit monitoring via ProtectMyID. [UPDATE: It appears that this benefit is only for AAA East Central which services parts of New York, Kentucky... Read More →
In case you didn’t know, there was a massive data breach at Anthem (health insurer) where up to 80 million personal records were compromised. Whenever a data breach of this nature occurs, the company is required to provide free... Read More →
Credit Karma is a website that gives you a free credit score (VantageScore V3) and also lets you monitor your credit report. Back in late December of 2014 they announced that they would be giving users access to their Equifax data as... Read More →
Many of us enjoy the real-time Experian credit monitoring alerts we get, back from when Target gave us a free year of credit protection via Experian/ProtectMyID. The bad news is that the service was just offered free for a year, which... Read More →
