Amex account numbers on Transunion records?

[Anonymous]

I hope this is the right board for this.

As I got some weird message from Credit Karma (yes, I know, it's probably bogus), I wanted to check my free credit report from Transunion. As part of the identification process, they asked me to enter the account numbers of all my credit cards. I had no problem with Visa or Discover cards, but the Amex card always bounced. I triple checked the number, but no dice. Does anyone know whether Transunion uses some weird format for Amex card accounts?

I was then excluded from the automated process and tried my luck with the phone process. That was also very frustrating, and I'm not sure whether it succeeded.

[Junejer]

Unless something has changed in the last six or seven months, you won't get to see your report at CK, only a FAKO score.

[Anonymous]

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@Junejer wrote:
Unless something has changed in the last six or seven months, you won't get to see your report at CK, only a FAKO score.

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No, I went via annualcreditreport.com. Credit Karma just had the message "Too many lates", which was somewhat worrisome, because I'm not aware of any lates. It's time for a new credit report, anyway. As Credit Karma uses Transunion as source, I wanted to look at that report, and that's when I ran into the problems I talked about.

[Junejer]

Gotcha.

[Anonymous]

I don't usually respond to messages but I just wanted to tell you.....mine had a 1 and a bunch of zero's for the transunion account number.  The other two bureaus did not.

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:
I don't usually respond to messages but I just wanted to tell you.....mine had a 1 and a bunch of zero's for the transunion account number.  The other two bureaus did not.

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Thanks. I guess it must be something like that. How I am supposed to know that before I actually see the report is beyond me, though. I was a bit surprised right away that Transunion claimed to know all my account numbers. Equifax doesn't.