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Q: Opting out of credit card offers

Do you have any information on who I could contact to specifically stop credit card offers? I probably get three or four a day in the mail. It seems like a ridiculous amount of junk mail and I'd like to get it turned off. We've got the turn off on the other solicitations and junk mail but the credit card offers just keep on coming.

-- NIKKI CHAMBERS

Torrance

Call 888-5-OPT-OUT (888-567-8688).

The toll-free line, required by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, allows people to opt out of preapproved credit lists compiled by the four major credit bureaus -- Equifax, Experian, Innovis and TransUnion.

People can choose to remove their names from these lists for two ...

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