I get at least one credit card offer a day and I'm tired of throwing them away as well as identity fraud.
2007-09-26 16:58:44 · 8 answers · asked by The Drake 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Credit
Here's the site to opt out: https://www.optoutprescreen.com/?rf=t
2007-09-26 17:08:45 · answer #1 · answered by bdancer222 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most include a postage-paid envelope to return the form you filled out to take advantage of their offer. There's no law that says you have to fill out the form, but they do have to pay the postage.
Write "take my name and address off your mailing list" on the form, and put it in the postage-paid envelope. Then start adding junk: old receipts from MacDonald's, used napkins, dead bugs, and of course the envelope their junk mail came in. You may have to use tape to seal it but that's okay, if it's overweight they still have to pay the postage. Stick it in the mailbox and wave bye-bye. It takes a few months for them to get the message, but they eventually do.
One sent me a new offer with a note printed on it saying where I could go online to get my name removed. Right! Like I want more spam. They got another envelope full of crap. Another tried sending me a bigger envelope full of junk mail. I sent it back to them with all the trash I could find on the floor of my truck, including some stale french fries, an empty ketchup packet, and a dried-out ballpoint pen.
I haven't received any credit card offers lately :-]
2007-09-27 00:08:40 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All you need to do is go to http://www.optoutprescreen.com This is the offical site that once you enter in your information you will be removed from the Pre-Approved applications.
This is run by the 3 Credit Reporting Agencies and is totally free to do.
2007-09-27 00:09:42 · answer #3 · answered by OC1999 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can contact the credit reporting agencies and instruct them not to release information about your credit rating, except to persons or entities authorized by you. I did this several years ago and have stopped receiving those annoying offers in my mailbox.
2007-09-27 00:03:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can opt out of receiving prescreened credit card offers in the mail. You can either call an 800 number or do it online.
Check out this link for more information --
http://www.e-wisdom.com/credit-cards/low-apr-credit-cards.html#unsolicited-offers
2007-09-27 00:22:48 · answer #5 · answered by tw158 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are ways of stopping it or slowing it, as others will advise you about. My best idea for all of us to do something is to make sure that you tear off all identifying info and send back the reply envelope empty. That way they get charged postage and have to pay someone to open empty envelopes. They'll quit if enough people do it.
2007-09-27 00:07:44 · answer #6 · answered by Steve-O 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call Opt Out @ 1 888 567 8688.
2007-09-27 00:34:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
advise the 3 credit bureaus that you don't want those credit card offers anymore.
2007-09-27 00:02:15 · answer #8 · answered by sophieb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋