{"id":6751,"date":"2010-05-19T13:03:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T12:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=6751"},"modified":"2010-05-20T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T10:54:09","slug":"does-a-free-credit-report-prevent-identity-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/does-a-free-credit-report-prevent-identity-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Does A Free Credit Report Prevent Identity Theft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year over 11 million people in the united stated were victims of identity theft.   The total cost of this fraud was over $50 billion dollars.  <\/p>\n<p>Checking your credit score is very important as it directly affects your financial stability.  People with bad credit scores are considered financial risks and can affect your life in many ways.  Everyday activities like applying for banks loans for houses and cars , credit cards , getting a job , insurance , renting a house or business and other similar areas.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/creditreportgraphic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/creditreportgraphic-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"creditreportgraphic\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6752\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s very important to check your credit score also as identity theft which usually involves a lot of unauthorized activity on credit cards and loans will usually first be revealed when checking your credit report.  This in turn allows you to inform the relevant parties and authorities so the problem may be rectified before further damage can occur. <\/p>\n<p>Mistakes on your report can also be seen and rectified as quickly as possible so as not to damage your score and also improve it.  Better scores generally allow you to qualify for cheaper financial rates which can end up saving you a lot of money in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year over 11 million people in the united stated were victims of identity theft. The total cost of this fraud was over $50 billion dollars. Checking your credit score is very important as it directly affects your financial stability. People with bad credit scores are considered financial risks and can affect your life in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,127],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-contributions","7":"category-pr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}