{"id":6805,"date":"2004-12-28T15:33:01","date_gmt":"2004-12-28T22:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/12\/28\/run-silent-run-deep.html"},"modified":"2004-12-28T15:33:01","modified_gmt":"2004-12-28T22:33:01","slug":"run_silent_run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/28\/run_silent_run.html","title":{"rendered":"Run silent, run deep"},"content":{"rendered":"

This certainly appears to be legitimate. And, if so, suhweet — a link that lets you opt-out of “pre-approved credit and insurance offers” garned by companies buying credit lists from credit reporting companies like Equifax (the page is cosponsored by all the big reporting companies).<\/p>\n

You can either type the link directly — www.optoutprescreen.com<\/em> — or go to a site that will redirect you (like this one<\/a> under the EPIC<\/a>, which recommends doing this here<\/a>). For some reason, the credit reporting companies won’t let you click on a link directly to it, possibly for security reasons, but more likely (he says, mistrustingly) because they really don’t want <\/em>you to do it.<\/p>\n

Once on the page, you give your identifying info, and designate whether you want to permanently opt-out, do so for just five years, or even opt back into such offers. I’ve gone ahead and run it for myself, but not Margie, just in case it’s some horribly cunning scam, but it certainly looked <\/em>legit and a bit of digging made me think it was.<\/p>\n

(via Doyce<\/a>, so I can blame him in case it’s some horribly cunning scam)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This certainly appears to be legitimate. 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