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You cant ding a credit rating unless you have a users SSN, which the NYT almost certainly does not.
by ds 5y ago
You cant ding a credit rating unless you have a users SSN, which the NYT almost certainly does not.
- jasonwatkinspdx 5y agoNope. To put something on a credit report you need only match 2 out of Name, Address, DoB, and SSN. This is one of the big reasons why the reports are so inaccurate. It's absolutely hellish for people with a very common name. Source: when I was young my job was to investigate adverse items on credit reports and find legal pretexts to get them removed.
- ilikepi 5y ago> To put something on a credit report you need only match 2 out of Name, Address, DoB, and SSN. So any third-party vendor on Amazon has enough? Fantastic.
- jasonwatkinspdx 5y agoYeah, the whole industry is insane and scummy. It's designed to give creditors as much gossip as possible, and congress has only taken rather tepid steps to reign it in. At the time I thought I was on the side of goodness, as my job was to find legal reasons to dispute these negative items on credit reports, submit the report back to the bureaus for a rescore, and ultimately get people their mortgage. But with the benefit of hindsight I can plainly see how I was a cog in creating the 2008 crash, and how the whole system was ultimately constructed to look the other way vs fraud if it meant the mortgage went through. We badly need much stricter privacy rights surrounding personal information, but I don't see a viable political path to making it happen sadly :(.
- jasonhansel 5y agoMaybe change your name and/or billing address, and then change your card info?