What credit card companies and credit bureaus don’t want you to know

Sounds funny that your credit card companies and the credit bureaus share some trade secrets that are actually in place to do you more harm than good. For example many credit card companies wil extend you credit even if you can’t really afford it.

When you apply for credit the credit card companies only do a surface check to see if your finances measure up and to check your credit score if you fit in there box you win. A life of debt that you weren’t prepared for.

Debt that seems to grow faster than you can pay it off. Also you win some hidden fine print that states your can make the minimum monthly payment options that include taxes and possible additional charges you were not prepared for.

Next in line is the credit bureaus which were never designed to do anything more than create revenue. These bureaus are a double edged sword, first business that issue credit pay to report your payment and credit obligation repayment This is the first source of revenue.

Secondly these same bureaus who report our financial history also sell our information to other credit issuers to send us more credit offers. This is the second stream of revenue for these giant credit reporting bureaus. Most consumers never realize this and keep on going through life and wondering why this and why that.

Credit is big business and the effect of misuse of credit is dangerous. Just look around to see the negative affects on the economy. We have not seen this type of financial devastation since the great depression of 1929 according to the experts we learn from everyday.

So with this knowledge you can protect yourself by opting out of the marketing lists, using a professional service such as LifeLock to protect your identity and remove you from all of the major marketing channels, removing you from junk mail and opting out. Also LifeLock will place fraud alerts on your credit reports to prevent false issuing of credit to someone other than you.

The main reason we are on these lists is so we can be bombarded by direct marketing companies, credit lenders and other direct sales professions to trigger our impulse in buying. Where else should you get your data from some outside source or the one place that knows your deepest secrets in making purchases.

If you are exposed at your weakest level and the companies who compete are vying for your business than why would I as a marketer want to gather your intelligence from anyone else? I can see where you shop, where you have applied and received credit, where credit was denied and so on.

Take warning that in today’s modern world information is king right up there with cash. Which makes more sense today; robbing one bank or stealing identities and robbing thousands of identities for the same purpose and never leave the comfort of my own living room.

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