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Most financial experts agree that routinely checking your credit reports is a smart idea. If you ask those same experts about credit monitoring services, however, you'll likely get a lot of eye-rolling and negative comments. Critics have three primary complaints about credit monitoring. They say...

Almost everyone has seen one (or more!) of those ads for FreeCreditReport.com, in which a crew of lovable slackers miss out on chances to better themselves because of their lousy credit. Perhaps because they're distracted by the goofy jingle, what a lot of people don't realize at first is that the...

You've probably experienced this: Type in the address of your favorite blog but make one small error, and you end up at a page that isn't quite right. It has the same appearance and similar text, but a few elements are misplaced, the language a bit awkward. If you notice these inconsistencies,...

Despite the fact that FreeCreditReport.com isn't free, its singing salesman has been pitching the asterisk laden service in commercial after commercial since 2007. Whether he's blaming his car, girlfriend or job on his bad credit, his catchy lip syncing is enough to drive many a concerned consumer...

If achieving financial security is important to you -- and it probably is if you're reading WalletPop -- the absolutely worst source of information is the Madison Avenue marketing genius. If you want to be rich and happy, you would do well to take a sledgehammer to your television. But even by...