credit bureau
In some cases you may need to contact the Credit Bureaus to verify or order your credit report. You can find the information below. Please remember you must give them all the mandatory information to verify your identity. They need to prove that you are the owner of credit report request not a thief. Therefore, they will not give your information to a third party and if you receive some e-mail which not directly sent from authorization e-mail of their sites. You must not reply or give any information to this mail. You should forward this mail to credit bureaus and ask them to verify. This will help you prevent some e-mail fraud.
From time to time they may require proving the identity and you should give them right away. They may need to prove it in some case such as, you are order them a credit report and need to send to your new address. You may need to give them a SSN and copy of your license ID. Also you should read there structure very well because if you missing in some step they may freeze your request and you might have to do it all over again.
Below is the telephone number and address for each of credit bureaus.
Equifax
Phone number: 800-685-1111
Address: P.O. Box 740241, Atlanta, GA 30374-0241
Experian
Phone number: 888-397-3742
Address: P.O. Box 9595, Allen, TX 75013-9595
Trans Union
19022Phone number: 800-888-4213
Address: P.O. Box 1000, Chester, PA
If you intend to order credit report from them, they may charge you some minimum fee but normally they will charge you one time fee when you order and they also have monitoring services. This is a great service that can help you check you credit history on monthly basis. If you have a lot of money transactions, you might interest to purchase this service.