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Re:Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millio... by raverbashing on Thursday August 01, 2019 @05:13AM (#20582274)
The interviews sucks, but do you think those credit bureaus (+ your bank + your credit card operator) don't have that exact same information?

I might add it's one thing to buy a car or house on credit, another, very different is to gouge on credit cards and have them topped up beyond your repayment capacity.

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Re:Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millio... by tialaramex on Thursday August 01, 2019 @06:22AM (#20582574)
In the UK at least the Credit Reference Agencies don't have any information except debts and re-payments.

The best of them (Experian) can see that I have a credit card and I pay it off every month. They can see I don't have any unsecured loans from major banks, and that I'm registered to vote (information available for personal inspection to anybody but supplied in bulk only to CRAs)

None of them has any idea that I own property, or that I have a large amount of savings, or that my salary is many times more than my expenditures. That's invisible. I could prove it if I needed to do so for some reason, but it isn't passively collected (in the UK at least).

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