Comment on YSK: Indeed and other job sites are saturated with scams
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 9 months agoYeah… I may have gotten scammed on Dice because I did that… I work in IT where tons of the recruiters are Indian/Pakistani and two for different jobs reached out to me and asked for that. Tons of jobs want background checks because some require security clearance so in my mass of sending out like 50 resumes I did so, and about half ask for a SSN. I thought about it like two or three days later and got a credit report and so far it’s clean.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 months ago
You can freeze your credit for free by law. No credit lines can be opened while it’s frozen. To open a credit line, you go to the agency that they use and unfreeze it. They all support “unfreeze temporarily for X amount of time” as well, which makes it easy.
You have to do it at all 3, but once its frozen, just ask anyone who you want a loan from who they use, login to the site, then unfreeze it for a week.
Literally no concern about someone fucking with your credit after that.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thanks for the info! I’m in the US too BTW 🙂
jaxxed@lemmy.world 9 months ago
When offering such advice, you should mention the region where you know this can be done.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Sure. The united States. The law that makes credit freezes free is federal, so it applies to the whole country.