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20% Tip: Stop Credit Card spam in your real mailbox
July 12, 2007
If only this worked for fake spam email offers! I did this and it all stopped one day....all of it! Do you trust me? Or is this an elaborate spoof? Who do you trust?
How to Opt Out of Credit Card OffersWant to stop credit card offers from showing up in your mailbox? Here are two ways to stop the offers, or at least slow them down:
1. Go to OptOutPrescreen.com or call 888-5-OPT-OUT (888-567-8688). These are the credit reporting industry's opt-in/opt-out resources, which stops the four credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, Innovis, and TransUnion) from selling your credit information to direct marketers. You can opt out for a five-year period or permanently. (You can always opt in again if you decide you'd like to get these offers in the future.)
2. Add your name to the Direct Marketing Association's (DMA) Do Not Mail file. You can access this service online by going here, or you can send a letter or postcard with your name, address and signature to Mail Preference Service, Direct Marketing Association, PO Box 643, Carmel, NY 10512. Online requests carry a $5 fee, while mail requests are only the cost of postage. The DMA's member companies check against the Do Not Mail file to take out names of people who don't want to receive offerings by mail. Your name stays on the list for 5 years, and you can re-register at the end of that period.
Credit card companies get consumer information from other sources in addition to those mentioned above, so, while these two methods will considerably slow down credit card offers, the offers won't necessarily stop completely.
Posted by alex.
