Credit Expert Ask Three Riddles To Enter Their Site
March 3rd, 2009 § 3 Comments
I signed up with CreditExpert several months ago, mainly because Frog freaked me out over my credit score. I had no idea if I had one or what it was like, so I signed up to their reasonably-priced service to find out. As it turns out, my credit score was near perfect so I was pleasantly surprised – especially since Halfords turned me down for a £300 bike loan earlier in the year (wtf?). Anyhoo, the other day I noticed CreditExpert were still charging me for their service so I thought I’d log in and see what was what.
I went to their site – notice how the login button is really, really small.
Now, here I realised that in all the emails CreditExpert sent me when I signed up, my username and password weren’t mentioned. I can only assume my username was:
a) My name
b) My email address
c) A mix of the two
My password could be one of approximately half a dozen words/numbers I use to sign up to stuff, so I tried all the combinations I could think of.
Oh Noes!
Nope, not that then.
Obviously I have no idea what my password is, and since I never received it in an email I’ll have to get a new one. I clicked the “retrieve a new password” button. You’re taken to a screen where you type in your name and your email address – fantastic, email me my details please!
Foiled!
What?! You want what now? A password for my password?!
I can handle my mother’s maiden name, but what about the other box? Obviously in the sign up process I had to give some sort of answer, and type in a security question – but come on, it’s me, of course I typed in the name of an animal. But what animal? I don’t know – it was months ago! You overestimate the power of my memory CreditExpert!
Bumsticks
Damn you CreditExpert!
Zoe Piper is an Online Marketer and trainee Masseuse, currently residing in the pleasant village of Boston Spa.
They can kiss my ass too!
I hate that kind of system as I never remember that kind of stuff down the line.
A more cynical person would think they could be doing it to put people off trying to stop their payments…
I was actually wondering what I was paying for, hence trying to log in!!