ScoreWatch email alert says +22, ScoreWatch website indicates +17... what gives?!?

[Anonymous]

Anyone know what could account for this discrepancy?  Site shows an increase from 633 to 650.

I'd sure love to find those five extra points....  

-William

[haulingthescoreup]

My guess is that something happened that made your score rise 22 points, generating the alert, and in the interim, something else happened that dropped it 5 points. A new inq, maybe? Or an extra card reporting a balance, any wacko thing like that.