How to Activate My Credit Monitoring

Credit monitoring is a paid service that offers access to your credit reports and monitors changes to your credit profile. The service helps prevent identity theft by notifying you of critical changes to your credit profile. After signing up for a credit monitoring service, you will need to activate the service before you can use it. You can normally activate your service by phone, email or on the Web.

Instructions

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Call the customer service phone number for your credit monitoring service. If you did not sign up for credit monitoring over the Internet, you will normally use this method to activate your credit monitoring service. After signing up, wait until you receive your welcome package by mail from the credit monitoring service. The package will provide the customer service phone number for the service. Tell the customer service representative that you would like to activate your service. After you verify your identity with the customer service representative, he will activate your credit monitoring service.

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Go to the activation website for your credit monitoring service. After signing up for the service, you will receive information that lists a website to activate your service. If you signed up on the Internet, you will normally follow a link immediately after signing up to activate your account. If you did not sign up on the Internet, you will receive a welcome package by mail. This package will list the website address to activate your service. Enter the requested information to verify your identity and activate your account.

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Check your email for the activation link. Some credit monitoring services send you an activation email after you complete the sign-up process. Click on the activation link and answer any security questions to activate your credit monitoring service.