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Free credit monitoring for everyone?
Posted on Jul 13, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Robert Gellman says “everyone should receive free credit monitoring.” Good news: Truston is already going to offer a free service that we think is better. So there is no need to spill blood to get the credit bureaus to comply with his idea (but I applaud his moxie). Truston’s free credit inspecting service, MyTruston, will be truly free with no catch. Wait, how is it better?
- Privacy. With credit monitoring, you give up your privacy and take a risk: you have to send your sensitive personal information to a third party. With MyTruston you don’t give us your sensitive personal data—lots of people tell us they prefer that.
- Information. MyTruston empowers people to see detailed credit file information and help you understand it. Traditional credit monitoring provides you a vague message.
- Free. Our credit inspecting is and will be entirely free. No hidden charges or privacy loopholes and no credit card is required. Today, credit monitoring costs as much as $150 a year.
- Recordkeeping. MyTruston automatically maintains a log of everything you've done with regards to credit inspecting or ID theft recovery, which can be very valuable.
To learn more, read my recent blog post and sign up to be notified when we launch at www.mytruston.com (coming Q3 2006).
Filed under: Credit, Identity Theft
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