Comments on: Who Is Checking Your Credit Score? It’s More People Than You Think

By: Seemingly Harmless Activities May Harm your Credit — P2P No Bank

Seemingly Harmless Activities May Harm your Credit — P2P No Bank — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:54:12 +0000

[...] Who Is Checking Your Credit Score? It’s More People Than You Think I came across this article yesterday by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine featured at MSN Money. According to the article there are 5 people who may be checking your credit history – lenders, insurers, employers, landlords, and cell phone carriers. The fact that lenders would be looking into credit scores came…… [...]

By: TylerK

TylerK — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:39:01 +0000

When I bought my cellphone from Alltel, they told me the credit check was to see how many phone # they could give me. I would think there would be more too it than that.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:46:14 +0000

There is a phone number you can use 1-888-5-optout which stops quite a bit of the looks at your credit.