
Originally Posted by
Realitybitez
That seems like a real invasion of privacy by dipping into someones credit history. In saying that if it stops all the hassle of sending verification documents, by all means - lets do it that way

They do not dip into your credit history, they use them to verify whom you are, there is a huge difference here, when a company checks your credit history your credit score takes a minus hit, there are other ways to verify people ie:- electoral rolls but these are very expensive and are not 100% guaranteed of having the necessary data required, long story short, being a builder I am often in a situation where I need to credit check possible customers, this is done curtsey of my sister/accountant via an agency available from the Federation of Master Builders that I belong to, and it is very thorough. If someone had used this service for checking Robert Maxwell`s credit score just before he died, they would have uncovered a once perfect score that had shot down to zero over a few days as he plundered people`s pension scheme cash to try and save his empire, for a paltry cost of £6
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