Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
A senator, credit scores, losers and air guitars
The lyrics to FreeCreditReport.com’s latest ditty:
Wanted to get myself a new cell phone
So I could hear myself at a ring tone
Who knew the store would go and check my credit score?
Now all they let me have is this dinosaur
Hello? Hello? Hello? Can anybody hear me?
I know. I know. I know. I should have gone to
FreeCreditReport.com
That’s [...]
credit score, employers, UC Irvine, New University
From: Greg Fisher
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 7:28 AM
To: newu@uci.edu; newuopinion@gmail.com
Subject: credit score, employers, New University
You wrote, “Employers increasingly run credit checks on prospective hires; a high score is seen as an indicator of reliability.”
Who is your source regarding credit score use by employers?
Media depiction, credit score use, employers, CBS, Dallas
Consumer reporting agencies Equifax, TransUnion and Experian all state that they do not provide credit scores for employment screening.
Despite that, the anchor at the CBS-owned television station in Dallas asks the financial expert and analyst to explain it all to us:
It is today’s #1 hit in Yahoo News for the term “credit score” (complete with [...]
FreeScore.com II (second contact attempt)
The blogosphere simmers while Ben Stein summers.
The official Whac-a-Mole
From: Greg Fisher
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 10:49 PM
To: Nate Allard, Media First Public Relations; Ryan M. Wines, R2C Group
Subject: FW: credit score, employers, FreeScore.com II
Please reply.
[previous email attached]
Wikipedia Credit Karma/FICO baloney
The 4-year mess continues. But, how long will it take the collective brain of the world to figure out this one?
Genius 99.23.41.118 contributes: “Credit Karma will provide the FICO score from TransUnion for free, but will not provide the actual credit report.”
But, as any idiot can see, at the “wiki” about Credit Karma:
Credit Karma provides users with a [...]
credit score, employers, ABC News
Despite consumer reporting agencies’ emphatic statements that they do not provide credit scores for employment screening, ABC News writes:
But your credit score can also prevent you from getting that new job. Many recent applicants — from the newly divorced to recent grads saddled with student loans – are finding that their credit scores are keeping [...]
credit score, employers, Washington Post
http://www.buffalonews.com/410/story/667793.html
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090517/BUSINESS/905170338/1003/ARCHIVES
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/credit-card-rate-2381680-utilization-percent
http://www.fresnobee.com/columnists/salinas/story/1374724.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/136/story/1028698.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/michelle_singletary/043009_color_of_money.html
http://www.projo.com/business/content/bz_singletary03_05-03-09_DJE6T79_v6.17c60ad.html
From: creditscoring.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:35 AM
To: Michelle Singletary, Wasington Post personal finance columnist (The Color of Money email address); Michelle Singletary (another Washington Post email address for Singletary)
Cc: Andy Alexander, Washington Post ombudsman; Andy Alexander (another Washington Post email address for Alexander); Shirley M. Carswell, Washington post deputy managing editor
Subject: RE: credit score, [...]
Equifax states that it checks its job applicants’ credit scores
From: creditscoring.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:36 PM
To: Steve Ely, Equifax
Cc: Ilyce Glink; Coretha M. Rushing, chief human resource officer, Equifax
Subject: credit score, employers, Equifax HR
You said, “I will tell you, even when you apply for a job at Equifax, we check your credit score because we’d like to make sure that you are good [...]
Debt utilization, how much owed compared to capacity to borrow, ABC News
From: creditscoring.com
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 12:09 PM
To: Alice Gomstyn
Cc: Emily Peters
You wrote, “Peters says that nearly a third of your credit score is dependent on how much you owe, compared to how much you have the capacity to borrow — your debt utilization.”
If that ratio represents almost a third of the FICO score, then [...]
Credit score myth on Wikipedia dies after 654 days
New encyclopedia game contestant Kat Malone removed Wikipedia’s 678 credit score myth on May 22, 2009, after it stood for one year and 9 months.
The user challenged the 678 myth in the Wikipedia article “Credit score (United States)” with the deadly wiki ”citation needed” flag.
Other important and controversial changes in the wiki include capitalizing the word corporation, and that the FICO score scale [...]