The security of an alert is that it calls attenti

. You may not look at your credit report on a monthly basis and your personal credit cards probably only send a statement once a month! With a credit alert you receive info when it happens, when it helps. That’s why a credit alert can be also called a fraud alert. And on how it it’s whole system works. In case someone opt for having a credit alert it means he wants to have such a service... credit, alerting the other credit holders alerting them that your credit might have been stolen