If you are thinking about hiring a credit repair service to clean up your bad credit report, you better take notes on the following special report: Credit Repair Services are robbing unsuspecting consumers blind with their shifty scams, false hopes and broken promises. The director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection warns citizens in need of credit repair to be advised of numerous credit repair service scams and schemes. He states that while „There are legitimate, credit repair options available, the FTC has never seen a legitimate credit repair company.“

Don’t be fooled by credit repair services that contact you with hard-sell tactics, unbelievable promises and outlandish fees. There are several big-time scams underway in the United States fooling consumers into paying big bucks to have their credit report cleared. Be wary of credit repair services claiming that they are „in“ with the credit bureaus, have some sort of special arrangement or know a secret tactic to make credit reporting agencies delete bad credit reports from your file.

Start making improvements today and decide that from this day forward you will have better credit. Credit that will allow you to purchase a new home or product, whatever your goal may be. Be sure to check with credit repair companies but do your due diligence. Check them out. Ask for references. Check around for pricing and ask them point blank, just how they will do credit repair in 48 hours.

In contrast most credit repair attorneys have handled hundreds if not thousands of clients. There fore they have a lot of experience to draw on when deciding how to handle your credit repair case. This is something you or I just do not have when trying to manage it ourselves.

The third scam to look out for is for a price, the credit repair service promises to get you a whole new, clean credit file. The credit service tells you to apply for a new taxpayer id or Employer Identification Number, also known as a EIN, to build a new credit report. This is a felony and could land you and the credit repair service into serious trouble. The reason unsuspecting consumers get taken by this scam is because the credit repair service does not fully explain what they are being asked to do. In most cases they don’t even realize that this is not a legal solution to their credit repair problems. Be leery if any credit repair service promises you a new credit file or fresh credit history.

Long term credit repair is a process, not usually a one shot fix of getting credit repair in 48 hours. So, trying to repair your credit yourself can be frustrating. Credit repair is simply something best left to a credit expert. You can do SOME of it yourself, if you have the time and knowledge but unless you know exactly what you are doing you will not have the results professionals can provide.

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