http://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Rebuilding-Your-Credit/How-accurate-is-Experian-FAKO-score-to-real-FICO-score/m-p/1758916#M224796 <p>FAKO's are not accurate. If accurate they would've been FICO scores.</p> Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:57:12 GMT HiLine 2012-12-19T22:57:12Z http://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Rebuilding-Your-Credit/How-accurate-is-Experian-FAKO-score-to-real-FICO-score/m-p/1758742#M224767 <p>I pulled a credit report and score today from Experian.com (which is a FAKO score) and it's pretty bad, 597. I had a mortgage company pull my credit score on 11/14/12 and for Experian, I had a 642 (which is being used as the middle score for the loan).</p><p> </p><p>I'm praying that my score didn't drop 45 points in the past month because I see no reason for it to drop off. I actually had a lot of bad accounts age off since that report, a total of 8 actually. </p><p> </p><p>So how accurate is the Experian FAKO score vs a real FICO score?</p> Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:46:47 GMT http://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Rebuilding-Your-Credit/How-accurate-is-Experian-FAKO-score-to-real-FICO-score/m-p/1758742#M224767 Mike_B03 2012-12-19T20:46:47Z http://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Rebuilding-Your-Credit/How-accurate-is-Experian-FAKO-score-to-real-FICO-score/m-p/1758762#M224769 <blockquote><hr>Mike_B03 wrote:<br><p>I pulled a credit report and score today from Experian.com (which is a FAKO score) and it's pretty bad, 597. I had a mortgage company pull my credit score on 11/14/12 and for Experian, I had a 642 (which is being used as the middle score for the loan).</p><p> </p><p>I'm praying that my score didn't drop 45 points in the past month because I see no reason for it to drop off. I actually had a lot of bad accounts age off since that report, a total of 8 actually. </p><p> </p><p>So how accurate is the Experian FAKO score vs a real FICO score?</p><hr></blockquote><p>They do not correlate.  They could be exactly the same or a hundred off.  Search the forums here for ways to get an EXP fico - </p> Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:57:58 GMT http://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Rebuilding-Your-Credit/How-accurate-is-Experian-FAKO-score-to-real-FICO-score/m-p/1758762#M224769 p- 2012-12-19T20:57:58Z http://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Rebuilding-Your-Credit/How-accurate-is-Experian-FAKO-score-to-real-FICO-score/m-p/1758916#M224796 <p>FAKO's are not accurate. If accurate they would've been FICO scores.</p> Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:57:12 GMT http://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Rebuilding-Your-Credit/How-accurate-is-Experian-FAKO-score-to-real-FICO-score/m-p/1758916#M224796 HiLine 2012-12-19T22:57:12Z