How can they report AU if they don't ask SS#?

[plasticman]

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@LynetteM wrote:

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@plasticman wrote:

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@LynetteM wrote:

And...they didn't ask her address....or her SS#.

I was just curious whether or not to ever expect this to report on her credit reports.

We'll wait a couple of months. If it's not reporting for her, we'll call and see if they will "fix" it. They shouldn't tell us that it would report if they then don't get enough information to report.

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Are they sending the card to your address?

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Apparently...

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LOLx2

[Jazzzy]

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@daisyduke wrote:

When I got added as an AU to another persons card, they did not ask my address or my ss number. like magic, EX and TU picked it up about 30 days later....

I happen to have the same mailing address as the card holder however.

I can tell you that one of my coworkers was added to his father's CC - - father and son do not have same address, but they live close to each other (i

forget which CC company, i think it was a big bank CC)  eventully it hit is CR...six weeks.

do a search in the forum for the name of the company an AU...might be helpful to determine IF the card reports Au's....

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We asked them before we even added her. They said yes.

[Anonymous]

AU accounts can be matched up in a variety of ways.  If they ask SSN and/or DOB, they can use these.  If not, they can ask for address.

If they ask for nothing, then usually it has to do with some previously reported association the AU has with the statement/billing address of the primary cardholder.

If you have a common address, then this is how it is matched.

In fact, sometimes if you look at your "known addresses" you may find the Primary Account holder statement address has been added to the AU CR.

[Jazzzy]

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@Anonymous wrote:

AU accounts can be matched up in a variety of ways.  If they ask SSN and/or DOB, they can use these.  If not, they can ask for address.

If they ask for nothing, then usually it has to do with some previously reported association the AU has with the statement/billing address of the primary cardholder.

If you have a common address, then this is how it is matched.

In fact, sometimes if you look at your "known addresses" you may find the Primary Account holder statement address has been added to the AU CR.

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That's how our son's address got on our credit reports. We were AUs on his AmEx.

[plasticman]

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@Anonymous wrote:

AU accounts can be matched up in a variety of ways.  If they ask SSN and/or DOB, they can use these.  If not, they can ask for address.

If they ask for nothing, then usually it has to do with some previously reported association the AU has with the statement/billing address of the primary cardholder.

If you have a common address, then this is how it is matched.

In fact, sometimes if you look at your "known addresses" you may find the Primary Account holder statement address has been added to the AU CR.

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txjohn,

This is very interesting to me. Thanks for posting this information!

[plasticman]

Hi LynetteM,

Did the bank ask for your daughters D.O.B. as txjohn suggested they might have used?

btw..I sent you a PM

[Jazzzy]

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@plasticman wrote:

Hi LynetteM,

Did the bank ask for your daughters D.O.B. as txjohn suggested they might have used?

btw..I sent you a PM

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Nope. They asked us to spell her name...that was it.

This will be an experiment to see if it reports...and, if not...how much work it will be to get it to report for her.

[plasticman]

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@LynetteM wrote:

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@plasticman wrote:

Hi LynetteM,

Did the bank ask for your daughters D.O.B. as txjohn suggested they might have used?

btw..I sent you a PM

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Nope. They asked us to spell her name...that was it.

This will be an experiment to see if it reports...and, if not...how much work it will be to get it to report for her.

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I suspect they must already know something sufficient enough ( big brother and all ). What it is...who knows?

Please let us know the results of the "experiment".

Good luck!

[creditwherecreditisdue]

The real question is will the CRB's just allow you to add an address record to your file at will. That would solve the whole problem. If my parents added me as an AU to one of their cards (something I might want them to do actually) I don't know how they would match it up, I have never lived at their current address.

[plasticman]

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@creditwherecreditisdue wrote:
The real question is will the CRB's just allow you to add an address record to your file at will. That would solve the whole problem. If my parents added me as an AU to one of their cards (something I might want them to do actually) I don't know how they would match it up, I have never lived at their current address.

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Question:

Since one can only dispute inaccurate info on their CBR as reported by a lender, would not this be a problem? Or is my premise inaccurate to begin with?