• /home/pineapplelover
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    141 month ago

    I tried freezing my credit but I think transunion and equifax wouldn’t let me create an account for some reason. Asking me to call them. Anybody else running into the same issue?

    • @ohlaph
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      81 month ago

      I did previously and had to wait until a weekday to talk to someone. It was a huge pain. Fuck those agencies.

      • @cm0002
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        1 month ago

        Fuck those companies, they’d prefer that you thought of them as agencies because it makes them appear to be at least affiliated with the government.

        They’re not, they are private companies through and through

    • @return2ozma
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      71 month ago

      I know Ticketmaster just sent out millions of “sorry we got hacked, freeze your credit for free with this code” letters. Maybe they’re struggling to keep up with demand.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 month ago

        Mine was for credit monitoring. You should be able to freeze your credit for free at any time

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      Are you proxying or using a VPN to access their site. I often see IP blocks, even if that proxy is a simple socks proxy to a VPS i own. Many VPS subnets are blocked/restricted wholesale, as are many of the big VPN endpoint ips.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          That will 100% cause it with the 3 larger creditors (where fraud targeting is likely one of the highest…)

    • @RememberTheApollo_
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      41 month ago

      Happened to me, too. Just tried again a couple days later and it worked. Dunno why.

    • @atrielienz
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      11 month ago

      Yes. They’ll want to send you a letter with a passcode via the post office because of the breaches.