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Credit Sesame, Credit.com, Quizzle.com, and Credit Karma are just a few of the many websites that promise a free credit score. But Consumer Reports says there are hundreds of different ways to score ...

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The study created the ranking based on TransUnion data and gave some insight as to what factors may go in to this lower score.