Small rant: Perhaps I’m getting old and cynical, but the entire process through their sites feels a lil sketchy lol
Sure, it requires the basics, along with your SSN and cellphone to receive a text confirmation. Can’t just be me, right?
Anyways, thanks for answering my crazy questions due to my lack of faith in the safety of the internet in the days of SEO’s. 🤣
I froze three and was given a code to unlock them temporarily (or something this was like 8 years ago).
Gave the code to my bank when applying for a home loan. It didn’t work. Ended up just unfreezing so they could do their job.
Costs like $12 every time you want to freeze. It’s a racket.
You got scammed by one of the credit bureau’s dark patterns to buy a service you don’t need. It shouldn’t cost any money to freeze/unfreeze your credit. You can do it online with each of them for free.
Which one required money to unfreeze? Because that definitely sounds sketchy.
It wasn’t money to unfreeze. It was money to re-freeze after.
You shouldn’t have had to pay anything. I just put a “thaw” on mine two nights ago, which is a temporary unfreeze, and it was free with all three bureaus.
Yeah the temporary unfreeze was what wasn’t working and it was holding up my credit union.