Credit Scoring Site
The latest news. The RSS feed for The Credit Scoring Site, a bleak account

• Influence: Media, Search engines
  
• Influence: Media, Search engines
  
• FICO 08 held hostage
  
• Get your credit score. Get the FICO score.
  
• Influence: Media, Wikipedia
  
• Influence: Media, lying, challenge
  
• Influence: Media, Wikipedia
  
• Influence: Media, lying
  
• Secured credit cards
  
• Media
  
• Fake-O FICO Funk: More dupes
  
• Sanity
  
• New: Credit scores in mortgage lending
  
• Fair Isaac on the 678 myth
  
• email to CBS
  
• Experian first to offer FICO 08
  
• CBS News financial consultant suggests creating fictitious credit history
  
• Wacky Wikipedia
  
• Capital One caves
  
• Misinformation: Consumer Federation of America / Washington Mutual / Washington Post / et al
  
• Insurance scores, demographics
  
• Equifax broke the law
  
• 10 years ago
  
• Misinformation: Consumer Federation of American and Washington Mutual
  
• New Myth section
  
• More begging: Lawyer's hokey trick
  
• New Quirks section. First up: Authorized user
  
• Fake-O FICO Funk: LendingTree is for saps
  
• Consumer Reports WebWatch study, July 5, 2007
  
• Fun with Numbers contestant: Money Magazine
  
• Fannie Mae (Tweedledum)
  
• Fake-O FICO Funk
  
• Authorized user, The Experts
  
• Fun with Numbers, hired guns, settling, confusion
  
• YouTube videos, congressional hearing
  
• Equifax inquiry Type of Business non-disclosure
  
• Congressional hearing
  
• Authorized user fallout
  
• Supreme Court on insurance and the FCRA
  
• TransUnion markets thin-file credit score
  
• VantageScore addressed authorized user before FICO
  
• FICO to nix authorized user
  
• FICO Score Overhaul
  Started well before the subprime mortgage fallout
• White House FICO Credit Score Requirements
  660 is the magic number
• Hillis/Slack Settlement
  Equifax and Fair Isaac defendants
• Fair Isaac tweaks the FICO score formula
  Will add two new "scorecards" to the Classic FICO algorithm in September
• FICO scores and subprime mortgage loan defaults
  Blaming the FICO score for the meltdown
• Nevada, New Hampshire warn against authorized users
  Nevada: "Potential criminal penalties"
• Fair Isaac's FICO Forums
  Talk back to the wizard
• Blogger uses FICO Score Tracking
  612 to 804 in 16 months
• Media Creation uses FICO Score Tracking
  726 to 490 in 11 months
• Insurance Credit Scores in the Supreme Court
  Higher rates based on credit report data; Warren Buffet
• "GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE"
  Another high-falutin' study featuring a score not used in mortgage lending
• Experian: "Department of Justice Closes Inquiry into Experians VantageScore"
  But Fair Isaac's suit continues
• Flipper Nation
  Using your credit score for fun and profit. Or just fun.
• Fun with Numbers contestant: Equifax
  (Reeling in a WHOPPER!) Unbelievable, but true; apparently, hotlines to Fair Isaac out
• Max goes to Philadelphia
  Hawks the VantageScore
• Another credit scoring article, "Myth" story no. 2879...
  ... and one more zinger from the Washington Post