Assuming
fraud.org is legitimate, we must all "opt-out" of credit marketing lists:
C
redit bureaus compile marketing lists for preapproved offers of credit. These mailings are a gold mine for identity thieves, who may steal them and apply for credit in your name. Get off these mailing lists by calling 888-567-8688 (your social security number will be required to verify your identity). Removing yourself from these lists does not hurt your chances of applying for or getting credit.Note this flies in the face of their immediately preceding advice:
Keep your social security number confidential. It’s the key that unlocks your identity. Don’t give it to anyone unless you’re sure who it is and why it’s necessary to provide it. Ask your health insurer and other companies that may use your social security number as your ID number to give you a substitute number. If your state department of motor vehicles uses it as your driver’s license number, ask if you can get an alternate number. Or, take my advice and
write your congressman. Ask him/er why s/he is too spineless to make the marketing industry require "opt-IN" to shared databases. (While you're at it, note the tacit cost of gerrymandering: to use this online service, I needed a 9-digit ZIP code -- do you know yours? My district is wrapped like a snake through about 50 linear miles of Maryland and my ZIP code has at least two congressmen. If you missed it, the
Supreme Court just endorsed congressional districting fraud, the last dart into the heart of true democracy IMHFO.)
p.s. Don't trust this or anything else you read on the Internet. Corroborate my advice, then get off every marketing and do-not-call list you can find. Identity theft is like
encephalitis, now that can ruin your day.
