Fraud alerts and credit reports

[maiden_girl]

I recently placed a fraud alert on my credit report b/c I recently experienced some mail theft. I got a credit monitoring alert from Quizzle saying a security alert has been placed on my file. I tried to obtain my credit report from MyFICO to see if my credit looked different but I couldn't obtain it and it asked me to call in to verify my information. Is this normal during fraud alert procedures that you can't even pull your own credit report?

[Burned2manybridgesB4]

Yep. Went through same on initial pull, after FA placed. All others, after id verify call, should be no problems.

[myjourney]

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@Burned2manybridgesB4 wrote:
Yep. Went through same on initial pull, after FA placed. All others, after id verify call, should be no problems.

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+1 

[RobertEG]

Are you talking about a fraud alert or a freeze?

Very different animals.....

[maiden_girl]

Thank you. And yes a fraud alert.

[Burned2manybridgesB4]

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@maiden_girl wrote:
Thank you. And yes a fraud alert.

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Ok. I'm on a computer, instead of my old phone.

After I had the FA placed, I tried doing a SW pull, and got the message to call in (cannot complete purchase...or something like that). I called up myfico, and had to do the twenty questions, in regards to what was on my CR, to verify identity. Once that was done, I could purchase/pull without any "blocks" from that point on.