Average, credit score, Better Business Bureau (BBB)

See Fake-O FICO Funk.

Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:25:33 -0400
To: Sharane Gott <sharane@acadiana.bbb.org>
From: “creditscoring.com” <greg@creditscoring.com>
Subject: credit score, average

You wrote, “Average FICO scores for U.S. consumers are around 690.”

Who is your source for that figure?

Employers, credit score, Wall Street Journal

This appears as the #1 result in a search engine for the term credit score employers:

One in Six Employers Look at Your Credit Score – The Wallet – WSJ
Mar 11, 2009 Many employers are checking job candidates’ credit scores, but how big of a factor are credit scores in a company’s eventual decision to

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