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5 months agoYeah locking it just means nobody can open new lines of credit on the social security number. Then you can use multi factor authentication on the different bureau sites. You’ll need to lock it on all three… Which sucks.
It’s annoying, it’s stupid that we have to do this. But you gotta look out for yourself.
I meant freeze, which you should do.