Just about everyone has errors in their credit report. Some are minor and some are serious. Here is how to find out if you have errors and how to fix them.

Your loan officer just called to tell you that your loan application has been rejected. According to your credit report, you died not long ago! This actually happened to a very much alive 30-year-old Detroit guy. His alleged deceased status kept him from getting a new car loan. Here is how to find and correct errors to stop this from happening to you.

Start by getting a current copy of your credit bureau reports. Get all of them - TransUnion, Equifax, and Experion. Be advised, they will not give you details over the telephone and most likely will make you wait to have your reports mailed to you.

You can also go to a credit monitoring company and get your score and credit reports after signing up for their monitoring service. These are readily available online.

Federal law now provides Americans with one free credit report per year from each of the three major credit bureaus. These too are available online. Do a search and look for "free credit reports" to find the approved government program to apply.

Many people find one or more credit report blunders in the reports. These include information that is downright inaccurate and mistakes that reflect errors you have made. Some are minor but some have damaging effects like out Detroit guy found out.

For example, you might find some surprising errors, the not-your-fault stuff, that can include accounts mistakenly attributed to you. I once found I had a credit card on file that I never applied for. It was in the same name as mine, including the middle initial, but the guy lived in Pheonix. I had never been to Pheonix in my life! The card had never been used but it took two phone calls and a notarized letter to verify my Social Security number to get it cleared.

Errors can also include omissions, such as the presence of a delinquency that you have already remedied, or an old collection action that is still being reported as overdue even though you took care of it. You may also have an out-of-date home address or employment information. The your-fault stuff can include application notices that you didn't fill out. There are a multitude of possible errors and you must identify and correct as many as possible.

It is possible that a credit rejection is what will make you aware that you have a problem. Keep the original report and send the credit bureau, and the company that provided the erroneous information to the credit bureau, a photocopy of your evidence. Why keep your originals? In case there is a lawsuit involved, original documents, not copies, are required by most courts.

Keep all your records in good order and maintain records of all communication with the credit bureau and the information provider. Write down vital information of all phone conversations. Note the dates and times of conversations and the names of whom you spoke to each time.

As for handling inaccurate information in your credit file, the best way to approach the cleanup process is to start with the source. In most instances, it is listed right there on your credit report. This would be the company or person who reported your information to the credit agency.

Notify any "soft" inquiries of corrections. Soft inquiries are simply companies that you somehow authorized to look at your credit report when you applied for a loan, credit card, or employment. If an error persists, even after you have done your best to correct it, ask the credit bureau to inform any parties that may have looked at your credit report in the past six months. You can also ask for any corrected credit reports to be sent to potential employers that looked at your credit report in the preceding two years. Credit errors may keep you from getting a job and you might not even be aware of it.

If data in your credit report is correct but negative, or your dispute cannot be authenticated, you are in a bit of trouble. Under the law, this negative data can remain on your credit report for seven to ten years especially if you have filed for personal bankruptcy. If this is the case, it may take an attorney to act on your behalf to straighten things out.

After errors have been corrected, wait a few months and then request your credit reports again. Check to make sure that the disputed information has been removed or corrected. If it has not been cleaned up, you are back at square one but be persistent until corrections are made. Persistence does pay off.

Credit reporting mistakes can be emotionally draining and correcting those mistakes can seem overpowering but it will be much easier if you keep your emotions under control during the process. If you find yourself dwelling on your credit too much or if you find yourself becoming severely depressed over it, talk to someone about it. Your banker can be a good financial friend. Most banks have specialists ready to advise you for free.

Above all, remember that a credit problem is fixable. With the right steps it does not need to become an emotional disaster for you.Jim DeSantis is an Internet Publisher and former TV News Director. Get his free ebook about How To Fix Your Credit, here - Credit Rescue.

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The world has experienced the worst crisis at the financial markets since the big depression of the thirties of the last century. It has almost caused a collapse of the financial markets. Only vigorous interventions by the governments and monetary authorities of the United States and of European states have prevented the world from the worst, but the crisis is not over yet.

Everybody is affected by the crisis of the financial markets

The economic damage is overwhelming and many observers of the economic life predict a serious worldwide crisis. An uncounted number of people have lost and abandoned their homes in the United States. Thousands of people have lost the bulk of their savings in the Lehman Brothers crash. Pension funds have lost assets that count about 2,000 billion of USD worldwide.

There are unparalleled financial losses, but there is also a loss of confidence in the banks and their services. People worry about their savings and the future of their pension funds and individual pensions.

Nobody really knows what the future brings. There will be a new order of the financial world after the big crashes, but even the experts only have a dim notion what will come.

Everybody should join the discussions about the conclusions

Many people, common citizens as well as professionals in the financial markets, have made their experiences during the recent weeks and months. Everybody is concerned. They should have a platform to tell their experience and gather information. What are the lessons learnt from the disaster? Where does the economic life go? How to make money in the future? What do we expect from the bankers, financial services, pensions funds, retirement schemes? What should be done and what could be done in a better way? Are there concepts of sustainability in the business world?

Many employees cannot utter openly what they think. They risk to loose the job or they are left out, if it comes to professional upgrading. They also should have a platform to discuss.

Forum launched to discuss the opportunities after the big financial crisis!

Make Money Tip has been launched as a website and forum, where everybody is welcome to join the discussion about the future of the financial markets, banks, pension funds etc. Many experts have failed. Now, it?s time for all the affected people to talk at the Make Money Tip Forum. It?s an independent forum: http://www.makemoneytip.com

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Liliane Waldner is a business economist. She lives in Zurich. She has been in a member of the parliament of the State of Zurich during 17 years. She has attended the board of several public entities and companies, some of them dealing with the financial markets. Her website is http://www.makemoneytip.com

A financial crisis has happened with regular intervals throughout the last century, it happens again in the year 2008, and probably will happen in the future in much the same way. There is no fundamental differences between such crises in our time and former crises, except perhaps that they occur faster, occur more frequently, but fortunately also heal faster.

THE TYPICAL SITUATION BEFORE THE CRISIS

The crisis often occurs after a long period of economic growth, high employment and high activity. The situation for companies and individuals are typically as follows:

- The economic activity in the whole society is very high after a long period of growth, but is beginning to decline.

- Stocks are traded for historically high quotes after a long period of rise of 300% or more, they have reached an all time high level, but they are beginning to decline again.

- The prizes of real estate properties are also high after a long period of growth, 300% or more, but they also are beginning to decline after an all time high level.

- Companies are often over-established after aggressive investments for borrowed money. The investments have not yet shown profitable, but the companies estimate great profits from the investments because they think the general growth will continue uninterruptedly.

- Also the average individuals have high debts after having invested massively in their homes and in luxury objects. They have some beginning problems with payment on their debts, but think these problems soon will go away with an anticipated further rises of personal income.

THE INITIAL STAGES OF THE CRISIS

The crisis usually has a slowly developing initial face. During this face the situation can reverse and the economy recover without great damages. In this initial period one can observe the following process:

- Steadily more companies realize that their massive investments do not pay back with the expected revenues and they have problems paying on their loans. They abruptly reduce further investments and begin selling off assets.

- Steadily more individuals also realize they have a too great debt to handle with their private income. They reduce their consume and sell off properties and luxury objects.

- Companies are getting steadily less orders, are selling less and have less to do because of reduced consume and investments.

- Earnings of companies and individuals are declining and many are downright loosing money.

- The stock market values are sharply declining, often 20-30%.

- The property prizes are sharply declining, often 20-30%.

THE FURTHER STAGES LEADING TO A FULL-BLOWN CRISIS

At some time there can be a critical turning point leading into the development of a full blown crisis that it is impossible to recover from in an easy way. This turning point occurs when a certain percentage, for example 10%, of individuals and companies realize that they do not have enough income to handle their debt, and that sell-off of properties and stocks will not nullify the debt. The full-blown crisis has these properties:

- The activity and earnings of companies are abruptly declining.

- Many companies experience massive losses.

- The number of companies and individuals with debt trouble is abruptly rising.

- The number of bankruptcies is abruptly rising.

- The unemployment level rises abruptly.

- Banks get into serious squeeze due to customers unable to pay on their debts and due to the decline in the value of properties serving as security for the loans.

- The troubled banks have to rise the interest rates by many percent to counteract the losses. But this act only increases the problems for other banks, individuals and companies and accelerates the crisis.

- A high percentage of the banks get unfunctional and bankrupt

- Now there will be massive sell-offs of properties and stocks. The sell-offs are exerted by individuals trying to free themselves from some of their debts and by banks trying to stop losses on loans.

- The stock market cracks down by an new 50% or more driven by the massive sell-offs.

- The real estate market also cracks down a new 50% or more due to massive sell-offs, but usually somewhat slower than the stock market.

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF AN ULTIMATE CRISIS

The ultimate stage of the crisis is seldom reached, because the governments will at some point take control of the financial systems and secure a minimum functionality.

In the ultimate crisis the production of goods and services in the society has fallen 30% or more and continue to fall. Investments or building activities have totally halted. There is mass unemployment, 30% or more.

The financial system has nearly totally collapsed, and is only able to support the daily payment for food, energy and other necessities. The production facilities and organizations of the society have fallen apart 30% or more due to lack of maintenance, which means that the society is not able to recover in a short time.

THE END OF THE CRISIS

Before the crisis can end, all sell-offs to pay back on loans must be fulfilled. Then every actor in the society has to accept their losses. Debts that actors are not able to pay back must in some way be nullified. Then all the pieces remaining of the former companies must be fixed together again into new functional units. Then the society can slowly rebuild its strength.

THE CAUSES OF THE CRISIS

An important cause of the crisis are over-optimistic companies and individuals during the foregoing period of economic growth. They tend to believe that the general growth will continue forever without interrupting periods of economic decline. They also tend to overestimate themselves and think they will be a winner in the competition against other companies or persons, not a looser, not an average performer, but the winner.

This optimism, which is a general human property, make all actors borrow massive amounts of capital and invest them in homes, luxury objects and expansion of their business. This expansive behaviour tend to accelerate for quite a long time untill in meets the wall.

Another cause are executives in banking companies tempted to lend out as much money as possible to the borrowers, regardless of the consequences for the bank and the borrowers, because this behaviour gives the executives an enormous short term personal gain.

HOW TO AVOID FINANCIAL CRISES

Future crises can only be prevented by hindering financial institution lending out more money to anyone that the borrowers can pay back in a comfortable way. This can only be done by governmental regulations that set clear criteria that must be fulfilled when a certain amount of money is lent out.

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With the rapidly increasing use of Internet, business fraud is becoming more common nowadays and fraudsters try to use new tricks to cheat businesses and people. Major B2B Portals follow strict rules to monitor and remove fraudulent information posted on their sites. But still, fraudsters use new tricks to cheat buyers and sellers and most of the frauds can be prevented by making use of following simple safe trading tips.

- Spend enough tour on Investigating your unrealized partner

Always call up that one of the most necessary safe trading tip is that you should spent enough turn to notice more about your business partner before making a business deal. Copious cases of frauds happen due to short future of consideration and deprivation of consternation.

- Be careful of Over - unstinting Offers

You should be cautious of potential partners who offer a particularly high or low price in the first instance. It is easy to be tempted by such offers, but they are most often attempts to defraud.

- Make a Clear Contract based on mutually decided terms & conditions

Be straightforward and transparent and make a clear contract with your trading partner. Make sure that you have covered all the important points in the contract such as sales conditions, payment method, arbitration clause, quality inspection, etc. It ' s also advisable to keep the duly signed copy of your contract safely for a specific period to prevent any argument arising afterwards.

- Avoid Western Union which is one of the most common payment method used by fraudulent companies

Most of the fraudulent cases reported to B2B Portals involve payment via Western Union. After a buyer sends funds, the receiving party just disappears and with Western Union, you cannot trace the real name of an account holder.

- Get Written confirmation from seller about Original Products

You can also request the seller to put in writing that he is selling original items and not selling any fake or counterfeit products.

- Verify the Contact Information of your business partners

Always verify that address, phone number and email address given by your partner is real and correct. The contact details should be consistent and as a first step you can check whether contact details given by your partner on their B2B home page profile matches with one posted on their company website.

- E - mail Address: Do not rely on e - mail to contact a business partner. Even if the company has its own domain name, you may not be able to trace its owner.

- Fax Number: Look out for companies that use the same number for telephone and fax. They are likely to be small businesses and you need be careful in dealing with them.

- Website address: An impressive website does not guarantee the honesty or existence of a company. Don ' t be lulled into a false sense of security.

- Call them on phone and stay in frequent contact with your business partners

Call the company ' s phone number to check that the person with whom you are in touch through email / messenger actually works for that company. Be suspicious of any trader who uses only an e - mail address and cell phone and is reluctant to reveal a telephone number. It ' s also not wise to contact with partner only through messenger.

- Exchange regular e - mails to judge a particular company / person

Also exchange regular e - mails to judge a particular company / person. Maintain frequent contact and ask them regular detail about price, quality, payment method, contracts, etc. and try to obtain as much contact information as possible.for more articles go to :

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