Free Equifax Credit Alerts via PayPal

May 12, 2006 By Jonathan Ping 9 Comments
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Equifax and PayPal have teamed up to provide a basic credit monitoring service that is free to anyone. I say it’s free to anyone because after you click on the sign-up link, there is no verification that you actually use PayPal when signing up. In fact, I already had an Equifax login from my free government-mandated credit reports, so I just used that and it grabbed all my info automatically. Two types of alerts are included:

  • Upon an Equifax credit inquiry, or a
  • Balance change over a chosen percentage or dollar amount.

I signed up a few days ago, and got my first balance alert today. It doesn’t tell you which credit card triggered the alert, which is a bummer. Still, not bad for free and now I’ll know when my Equifax credit is pulled.

Filed Under: Credit Cards
Last updated: August 5, 2006
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Comments

  1. Anonymous says
    May 13, 2006 at 9:15 am

    That’s great. Thanks JP.

    Reply
  2. CollegeStudent says
    May 13, 2006 at 4:54 pm

    Hi, Very interesting blog. Inspired me to make up some financial goals and start now… Do you have an suggestions for books on investing and such for somebody who has never done this before? Thanks!

    Reply
  3. Anonymous says
    May 13, 2006 at 5:03 pm

    it didn’t work for me … they wanted me to pay for a membership

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  4. Jonathan says
    May 13, 2006 at 5:32 pm

    CollegeStudent – Please check out the Book Reviews category on the right.

    Anon – That’s weird, because I don’t think this is a product that they charge for. Be sure to click the link above to the PayPal info site and then ‘Sign-up with Equifax’.

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  5. Robert says
    May 14, 2006 at 1:01 am

    I try to stay away from paypal.

    Reply
  6. Jonathan says
    May 14, 2006 at 1:41 am

    That’s just it, this thing has nothing to do with PayPal. I think it was just given out to help assuage PayPal user’s fear of identity theft, but is provided by Equifax

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  7. Mark says
    May 14, 2006 at 6:01 pm

    I got an “inquiry” alert, and then the email said to log into Equifax, and when I did, I saw where it came from.

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  8. Jason says
    July 17, 2006 at 11:30 am

    I signed up for this service and all I get are false alerts. Anyone else have this problem?

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  9. Worthyremark says
    February 5, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    This promo is coming to an end. I got a letter in the mail a few days ago staing… Dear Paypal Member, your membership will be ending Mid Feb. 2008 and of course they solicit for me to buy a paying membership.

    Reply

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