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So on Dec 2, I got a notice on CreditKarma, Quizzle, Credit Seasme that my Transunion score increased 101 points..which is great....however..I don't know why. I looked at all the reports and didn't see anything fall off my credit report, there was no huge payoff on a card or anything of that nature..it was strange. Then on Dec 09..I got a notice that my score decreased..101 points!! So again..I am searching trying to find out what is going on. Couldn't find nothing!! Then on Dec 19th I see the same increase..by the same number of points 101!! So..I have no idea what is going on. Has this ever happened to anybody?
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The same exact thing happened to me, except mine was a different amount like 43 points or something. Nothing at all changed to cause it at the time that it happened. Then, just as mysteriously as it went up, it went back down. Happened with my Vantage 3.0 score in general because it wasn't only Credit Karma, but my Wallethub score did the same thing. Not sure why. I didn't get to see if my Fico score did the same thing.
My CK scores have not gone wild, but this past month my CK approval odds for credit cards have. In fact, one day CK had an Excellent approval odd for a CC that I know for an almost absolute fact that I have zero chance of getting an approval on.