Cristy, The more your report is accessed by anyone, the more credit issuing companies start to view you as a possible higher risk. Although they list numerous reasons for these often baseless assertions, I have never been able to see the full logic of their arguements. The free report request dose not count towards these 'report views'. Peace, Gman "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask" ----- Original Message ----- From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 10:52 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Off topic--Credit reports > Nice to know. I heard the more your report is accessed though it > negatively > affects your credit? Or is this true, and if so does requesting your own > free reports like that affect it? > > Christine --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join the PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------