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Thanks to the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003, each bureau must supply every consumer with one free credit report a year.

But while meeting the minimum requirements of this federal mandate, the Big Three have been energetically tapping online shoppers for hundreds of millions of dollars of fresh revenue and profit. By selling credit data via websites free credit rating report Montana that use "free credit report" and "free credit score" as inducements to sign up for credit monitoring, which has become a cash cow.

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