Places to get free FICO Scores

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Always a good reminder. Also discussed in The Credit Thread:

The Credit Thread

Well since the site is called leasehackr going to add a couple of hacks on getting some legit FICO credit scores. Not the FAKO vantage scores credit karma and the likes give you… Hack #1 Download the Experian App. It will allow you to create a free account that will give you your Experian FICO 8 score free once a month. The Hack here is that it will allow you to sign up for the Credit works Premium plan for a free 30 day trial(as soon as you sign up for it remember to cancel it so you won’t ha…

The Credit Thread

My AMEX card provides a free FICO 8 score, based on Experian credit report data. My Citi provides a FICO Bankcard 8, based on Equifax credit report data. CapitalOne provides CreditWise, which is kind of like Credit Karma as they use their own formula in conjunction with TransUnion VantageScore. I think anybody can use it, but I haven’t tried it myself. Chase also provides a “Credit Journey” which is almost the same as Credit Karma; not a real score but a good gauge.