3.2 OptOutPrescreen.com Suppression
Disclaimer: We apologize in advance for any grammatical and spelling errors in the slides.
About this module
In this module, we’re going to you how to prevent the credit bureaus from selling your personal information to credit card companies.
Step-by-step Instructions
- Start here https://www.optoutprescreen.com/
- Choose electronic opt-out for 5 years
- Only fill in the following information
- First name
- Last name
- Street number
- Street name
- City
- State
- Zip Code
- Note: Do not enter anything else
Full Video Transcript
Hello and welcome everyone. This is Kenney Conwell, and I’m going to walk you through how to opt-out of the Optout Pre-screen, and this is a pretty, pretty easy one to do. Really primarily done online and I want to show you how to do it right now. So you are watching this video and you want to just click right here. You’ll be watching this video. Then click on this website, optoutprescreen. So what’s going to happen when you click on that website, it’s going to bring you to this website right here. When you click on that link, it’s going to bring you to this website. And really what this is doing is you’re opting-out of the consumer reporting industry database for like promotions and all that good stuff. So it’s just going to make it that much harder for them to try to verify that information for you.
So like we’ve already talked about, these are reporting agencies. So what you want to do is scroll down, click on this blue button that says opt-out. Then what you want to do is select opt-out for five years. I’m gonna go ahead and hit continue, and then proceed to entering your information right here. And it’s fairly simple. And again, what I suggest is, most of this information is required. So, unlike LexisNexis, you’re going to have to enter in the information that has the asterisk next to it. So if it doesn’t have to be asterisk, you don’t have to enter it. But if it does, you do have to enter it. So for instance, first name, last name, middle initial or middle name doesn’t have to be entered. Suffix doesn’t have to be entered. Social security number or date of birth
doesn’t have to be entered. So do not enter in this information. Only enter the information that has the require asterisks. I wouldn’t even put my phone number in here and you obviously want to enter this in. Okay. But this is how you get this knocked out. Once you get all this information done, hit confirm, and then, you’ll get a confirmation. Just save that confirmation for your own records and you will be officially opted-out of the major reporting agencies for promotions and all of that good stuff. See you in the next video.