If you're not concerned about your credit score, you're probably not regularly checking it. By ordering a free copy of your reports from the "big three" reporting agencies -- TransUnion, Experian, and ...

A credit monitoring service can notify you when a credit application has been made in your name. Here are our favorites.

Dear Action Line: You said we can get free copies of our credit reports June 1. How do we go about that? -- D.S., Tulsa. Free credit reports: Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports ...

Each try meant wading through prompts that tried to get him to buy something. One prominent ad urged him to spend $29.95 to buy all three credit reports and his credit score, rather than order them ...