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NAB CREDIT HEALTH REPORT
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  • newreg1 on 11/11/2019 - 20:59
    +2

    Who is Illion and how secure is my data with them?

    • forrester on 11/11/2019 - 21:03
      +10

      Formerly known as Dun and Bradstreet

      • jv on 11/11/2019 - 21:21
        -7

        Sounds dodgy…

        • ely on 11/11/2019 - 21:28
          +8

          No bold, are you really jv?

          • jv on 11/11/2019 - 21:29
            +25

            @ely: I've ordered more ink.

            • ely on 11/11/2019 - 21:31
              +2

              @jv: Here, have some of mine.

              • 00 on 11/11/2019 - 22:22
                +1

                @ely: …..ewww

              • GregMonarch on 12/11/2019 - 04:04
                +3

                @ely: Didn't your mother ever tell you to be careful sharing things with jv… (you never know where he's been). ;-p

                • ely on 12/11/2019 - 22:26

                  @GregMonarch: Geez, you try to help a guy out and everyone gets the wrong idea :D

            • baldur on 11/11/2019 - 22:25

              @jv: Any bargains?

            • Lucille Bluth on 12/11/2019 - 11:44
              +2

              @jv: I'm running out of ink myself

        • [Deactivated] on 12/11/2019 - 07:43

          How much is it normally?

      • LFO on 12/11/2019 - 19:58

        Dun & Bradstreet?
        We used to buy, thousand years ago, big mailing list (on tape!!) for us to print on sticky labels and then mail.

        Always wondered where is all that information coming from … in particular when it started to show our own "dummy addresses" used to detect misuse …

        Must be a very lucrative business.

    • Settero on 11/11/2019 - 21:05
      +1

      they are one of the three major credit reporting agency's in Australia , think they used to be called dun and Bradstreet

      • koalafied on 11/11/2019 - 21:31
        +37

        Just a quick heads up, once you register your email and phone number with them, they share it with 3rd parties and you'll receive nuisance calls and text messages. They once sent me a letter saying that I owe them money when I had no credit card or any outstanding debt.
        This was prior to their name change from Illion (formely Dun & Bradstreet).
        You can read all the neg reviews on Google and Product Review

        • capslock on 11/11/2019 - 21:58
          +2

          I didn't give them my mobile number though.

        • syousef on 12/11/2019 - 01:02
          +1

          Thanks for the heads up.

        • lachhelix on 12/11/2019 - 01:30

          Yeah, I got suss when they required a mobile number. Go direct through illion - same form but doesn't require a phone number

          • lmabzo on 12/11/2019 - 11:13
            +1

            @lachhelix: This form doesn't require a mobile either..

        • s4sep on 12/11/2019 - 04:18
          +5

          You likely had/have an unpaid fine, they collect debts on behalf of other companies/gov. Could be toll road, Centrelink, phone, who knows.

          What debt collection agency is going to have good Google reviews haha

        • richadam on 12/11/2019 - 10:46

          I think they specifically mentioned that they won't be off selling your data. I didn't check the Ts & Cs this was just from the new article about it.

    • techlead on 12/11/2019 - 10:30
      +1

      Your data is already with them. You are just accessing it to check your file.

    • dagold on 09/12/2019 - 23:15

      I just did this and got somebody else's credit report. All your base are belong to us

  • [Deactivated] on 11/11/2019 - 21:03

    Doesn't running reports like this negatively effect your credit score?

    • bargain_knight on 11/11/2019 - 21:06
      +4

      No. It's not a credit enquiry, which can impact your score.

    • zhanggg on 11/11/2019 - 21:08
      +1

      Surely not. You can get at least one free credit report a year; other places do more regular reports for free. Finder.com.au does a free monthly one (provided by Experian).

      https://www.moneysmart.gov.au/borrowing-and-credit/borrowing…

      • ely on 11/11/2019 - 21:30
        +1

        Yeah, no impact. These three give you basic info which covers the three major credit reporting providers in AU, with (at least) monthly updates. Generally monthly, but in the case where significant events occur (e.g. apply for a credit card) then you might get one quicker.

        • capslock janitor on 11/11/2019 - 21:41

          i used get credit score last time was fine

          • ely on 11/11/2019 - 21:47

            @capslock janitor: Yeah, they're all fine, used them for years (except creditsimple, which is relatively new - possibly after D&B changed/was bought out to become Illion?).

        • Ulya on 11/11/2019 - 23:01

          I've tried the first two services and they both don't show my applications for home loans and credit cards. The applications were done approximately 2 years and 7 months ago.
          Am I curious why this is the case?

          • secondsolution on 12/11/2019 - 07:53

            @Ulya: That's odd. It could be that you have had multiple credit files created. Have you had a name change or moved interstate between now and those applications?

            • Ulya on 12/11/2019 - 09:18

              @secondsolution: Yes, I've moved interstate.
              One credit reporting provider shows my home loan taken in the previous state I lived, but not the loans in the new state. Another provider doesnt show any loans.
              Any implications?

              • ely on 12/11/2019 - 22:22
                +1

                @Ulya: You can ask them to correct the record if it's a problem.

                I probably wouldn't worry, unless you're otherwise lacking any credit history, as applications for credit are generally more negative than positive so having them gone probably boosts your score. If you have far too little credit history it might be better to have them though.

  • CanberraCobber on 11/11/2019 - 21:05
    +8

    Provided by credit simple, you can get from credit simple direct.

  • G77 on 11/11/2019 - 21:07
    +14

    You can get it directly from illion for free…what's the bargain here?

    • Yabadabadoo on 11/11/2019 - 21:10
      +4

      A big bank is offering a service without adding a massive commission.

      • dasher86 on 11/11/2019 - 21:13
        +8

        Probably to farm your details for s&m?

      • G77 on 11/11/2019 - 21:16

        without adding a massive commission

        I feel like all your personal information and your current financial standing (if you're not already a NAB customer) is a pretty hefty commission.

        • jv on 11/11/2019 - 21:27

          They already have your personal information, even if you're not a customer.

          • ely on 11/11/2019 - 21:48

            @jv: Hey, hey, they're not Facebook.

    • Charity on 12/11/2019 - 00:11
      +1

      I would trust NAB a million times more than illion.

      Having said that, this deal means your details end up with illion. Which means it's a horrible deal.

    • Lucille Bluth on 11/11/2019 - 21:17
      +13

      shocked to find out all the rejected Citibank credit cards applications and enquiries I made to them were recorded and affecting my rating.

      Surely this is a joke?

      Did you genuinely think all those would not affect your credit rating or be recorded? Why on earth would you apply to the same bank over and over again if you are being rejected?

      • burningrage on 11/11/2019 - 21:36
        +2

        What he is saying is Comprehensive Credit Reporting system is an ass because it makes him look bad.

        I think its an ass too but too bad so sad.

        • ely on 11/11/2019 - 21:50
          +2

          GP's not saying that - those are all negative events which were recorded prior to CCR (also called positive credit reporting). I'm in favour of positive credit reporting because it adds in positive info as well (e.g. if GP paid their CC bills then that turns up as well).

    • teacherer on 11/11/2019 - 21:21
      +5

      Lol

  • linkii on 11/11/2019 - 21:29
    +1

    I understand that credithealth.nab.com.au is hosted and operated by Credit Simple and my credit report and credit score is provided by illion, and that NAB will not have access to my credit report or credit score.

    May as well just get it directly from credit simple.

    https://www.creditsimple.com.au/

    • fishball on 11/11/2019 - 21:32
      +3

      $2 cashback too ha

      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/492739

      • richadam on 12/11/2019 - 10:48
        -1

        So you just give your data to Shopback then?

        • fishball on 12/11/2019 - 10:57

          Shopback only gets what the merchant reports back. Probably credit simple just pays them $2 to refer people to use their service, they aren't going to give shopback my entire credit report for free since its their bread and butter.

          Having said that I trust shopback more than I trust D&B so…

  • Levathian on 11/11/2019 - 21:29

    I'm so confused, it says (as a negative) that I've had credit enquiries or something thru telecommunication companies i.e optus.. But I pay by the month?
    And it says it's a negative that I have a credit card but then says it's a positive I have few credit providers?

    • ely on 11/11/2019 - 21:40
      +3

      Basically, the credit scoring system is crap. They have a very incomplete view of your overall financial position and are trying to draw conclusions from that incomplete information, and often doing so badly.

      I don't know why you'd have credit enquiries from telecoms providers where you pay by the month; I'd hit them up and ask them to remove them. If they don't budge, ask about the complaints procedure. If they still don't budge, follow the complaints procedure. If they still don't budge, and haven't convinced you that they're in the right, and you can be bothered doing so, take it to AFCA. (This is a good general purpose approach to any disagreement with a financial institution in Australia - only once have I actually had to take something all the way through the FOS, which has now been replaced by AFCA).

      Having a recent credit enquiry is a negative in the short term but it diminishes rapidly over time. Having a card and making all of your repayments is a positive, more so now with positive credit reporting - just do actually make all of your repayments on time.

      I typically pick up ~4 credit cards/year for sign up bonuses, but I pay everything on time and my credit score (a few months after an application) is "excellent" according to Experian and Equifax, but Illion is less keen on me, being "good" at best. Same data, but different models for risk. I don't know who is more correct, really - I'm very low risk of not repaying debt, but I'm also very low chance of being profitable to a credit card provider!

      • starbearer on 12/11/2019 - 00:34

        Awesome info, thanks

    • Love a bargain on 11/11/2019 - 22:07
      +3

      Telcos perform a credit enquiry when someone sign up to a postpaid service because they don't charge you until after they've provided the service (i.e. they're providing credit) - nothing unusual there if you're on postpaid service

      • Randolph Duke on 12/11/2019 - 09:16

        Yep, spot on. Not going to get that credit check removed.

      • Levathian on 12/11/2019 - 09:29

        So it's not something for me to worry about?

      • ely on 12/11/2019 - 22:25

        Telecoms may do this; I've never had it happen though. You can try being a pain to get them to remove it anyway, it does sometimes work. My credit history doesn't have my current mortgage application on it because they initially refused it, I asked them to remove the application from my credit report, and they agreed. Then they realised that they had stuffed up and they could approve it… but never reinstated the enquiry.

  • themadman on 11/11/2019 - 21:35

    Whoops, apparently lots of phone plans lead to bad credit health haha.

    • fishball on 11/11/2019 - 21:43
      +3

      D&B have my score at 500s whereas the rest are at ~800 and I've never really had credit issues at all and never spam phone plans (I do the prepaid jumping, most recently on Kogan and next is Boost).

      The score is almost useless, only good thing is to check if anyone takes out credit under my name.

      I reckon they just make your score look worse than it is so they can sell you products to "improve your score" or some bs.

      • themadman on 12/11/2019 - 09:07

        Oh really! That's a relief.

  • yeahitshot on 11/11/2019 - 21:37
    +4

    You are entitled to free credit reports from all the credit agencies (from memory atleast 1 report per year). Specifically for illion, you can create a free account with credit simple and get real-time reporting.
    It appears NAB is just trying to get data from non customers for free, without offering anything in return.

    • whoopdeedoo on 11/11/2019 - 22:15
      +2

      they'll be offered great NAB products lol

  • RenVilo on 11/11/2019 - 21:47

    I bought a car and was shocked to see they ran about 8 different inquiries on my name.. this was a year ago and now its been held against me. Wanted to get a credit card and they said everything is good.. income and expenes etc. But i can't coz there was a lot of inquiries in the last year and they see that as a risk. I believe these stay on record for 5 years.. so what.. should i wait for 5 years..

    • Love a bargain on 11/11/2019 - 22:09

      Who are all those enquiries from? Did you apply finance from multiple places?

      • RenVilo on 11/11/2019 - 23:06

        Ni applied at 1 dealership. They went and applied to several places to see who will give me the best rates..

    • whoopdeedoo on 11/11/2019 - 22:16

      you can get them removed

      • RenVilo on 11/11/2019 - 23:06

        How do I do that?

        • whoopdeedoo on 12/11/2019 - 00:50

          call the finance company to remove the 7 useless enquiries. if they dont help. threaten them with AFCA.
          call equifax and/or illion
          or you can also pay a credit repair company but this costs $$.

  • whoopdeedoo on 11/11/2019 - 22:15
    +1

    be prepared to be hounded by NAB cold callers.

    • bargaino on 11/11/2019 - 22:52
      +2

      You don't need to give a phone number.

  • ribze1 on 11/11/2019 - 22:22

    "You have a good score (between 500-699)"

    My credit score is 635 - 1 home loan, 2 credit cards (CBA + AMEX) and nil defaults/late payments in my 12 years of borrowings and paying bills.

    How on earth do you get anywhere near the maximum of 850?

    • RADICALIST on 11/11/2019 - 22:27
      +6

      I got 854. I only have a mortgage, no credit or loans.

      I use to have 3 credit cards, a car loan and a personal loan 3 years ago. Paid them off and now I'm debt free(apart from mortgage). The score means nothing to me as I'll never be borrowing money again.

  • BlackorRed on 11/11/2019 - 22:38
    +1

    **863: 2 mortgage, 2 credit cards, always paid on-time, if you don't pay bills on time, it affects your credit rating, that's simple

  • madllama on 11/11/2019 - 23:01
    +2

    I recently was a victim of identity theft and had a bunch of credit cards opened under my name.

    Ironically NAB was the most difficult to deal when I wanted them to remove a fraudulent card from my credit history. They wanted police report, statutory declaration and a bunch of other craziness.

  • cowiie on 11/11/2019 - 23:06
    +1

    409: 2 mortgages, 3 credit cards, always paid on-time. Any help here guys?

    • [Deactivated] on 12/11/2019 - 01:35

      Why 3 credit cards? Surely 1 for points if that's your thing but 3.

      • cowiie on 12/11/2019 - 10:10
        +1

        Amex (points), mastercard (points), 28degrees (price protection). All no fees obviousky

    • kingmoron on 12/11/2019 - 10:40

      well limits on cc reduce how much you can borrow by 3x generally

  • boku on 11/11/2019 - 23:15

    My score differ significantly between equifax(~600) and experian+illion (~800). Wonder which credit provider is preferred by the lenders?

    • caiphus on 11/11/2019 - 23:32

      The credit scores are just indications of those credit-reporting agencies determination of your credit health. Under current lending laws individual financial institutions are supposed to take your circumstances into account themselves and as such the scores are relatively meaningless because the financier will have their own algorithms. The information each credit reporting agency keeps on file can differ though so depending on who your financial institution sources the data off can have an effect although it isn't necessarily proportional to how the credit reporting agency they get it from calculates your score.

  • Ash SA on 11/11/2019 - 23:38

    Bu//$h!t.. it shows my score as 925. Lol not possible.
    They dont even show all enquiries i made in past few years.

  • UFO on 12/11/2019 - 00:17
    +2

    DON'T go through NAB!!!!

    Every single person is entitled to get their credit score/report FOR FREE direct from the credit reporting agencies.
    Free whenever you want it.

    There is absolutely no reason you need to go through a bank for this information.

    Also, I strongly suggest you read these reviews for Credit Simple… the company NAB will refer you to for the credit check.
    https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/credit-simple

    Take extra note of the amount of 1 star reviews claiming they are either being spammed constantly, or their credit score seems to be dropping all on its own for no reason, whilst constantly being spammed alerts about it stressing people out needlessly. And there's A LOT of obviously fake 5 star reviews. When a company starts doing that en-mass, it's a bad look imo.

    AVOID.

  • Jared17 on 12/11/2019 - 00:23
    1. Better than I thought.

    No mortgage but 2 Credit cards that I only pay min payments usually.

  • tomlikesbeetroot on 12/11/2019 - 00:28

    Bit of silliness with Illion, noticed that they had the incorrect current employer listed as a company I left a few years ago. I raised an inquiry to correct this and sent them my new employment details. After a couple of weeks they have closed the inquiry without changing it and said the details listed are correct, and referred me to the ombudsman if I wish to challenge….. very weird.

  • donotuse on 12/11/2019 - 06:51

    Be careful. It’s like having sex with a stranger who got STD

  • wog_ta on 12/11/2019 - 07:10

    Nothing is free when it comes to banks

  • Fat Horny Ghost on 12/11/2019 - 08:03

    721 credit rating but my application for a platinum 28 degrees card got rejected.

    Reason being is that my expenses are too high?

    Been paying off my credit card for 4 years now all on time.

    Would it be that I just got my new job a month or so ago?

    Earn $1.1k each week. Expenses around $400-$500 per week including rent.

    • Viospeed on 12/11/2019 - 10:07
      -1

      LOL you have major financial problems if you're paying off a credit card for 4 years.

    • nickj on 12/11/2019 - 12:10
      +1

      I think I might be able to answer that. Best as I can tell, it now works like this:
      * 28 degrees is now a $6,000 minimum limit (previously was much lower, it used to be $500 minimum in 2012, it increased 12-fold in the space of a few years).
      * For a $6,000 limit, credit card companies all want income of $35,000 per year.
      * Banks used to take an overall view of your income & credit record & assets, and you would have been easily approved prior to early 2019.
      * Since early 2019, the banks now seem to go: pre tax income minus expenses should be greater than the minimum income requirement, i.e. $1,100 - $500 = $600 per week of pre-tax disposable income, multiply by 52 = $31,200 per annum of pre tax disposable income. That's less than $35,000, therefore reject.
      * Assets now don't matter at all (I went through the same thing with liquid assets that were literally 120 times the amount I was applying for, and was still rejected).
      * Credit rating doesn't matter if you fail the above test (I was around 800 rating).
      * The best approach I think if you have a partner with a higher income is to agree that they pay more of the rent or other costs. The critical amounts seem to be $35,000 per annum for platinum level cards, and $75,000 per annum for the black/signature level cards.
      * So for example, for a $35,000 level platinum card, with $1100 per week income, they would reject if weekly expenses >= 1100 - 35000/52 = $427. (e.g. reduce your expenses to below that level by having your partner pay more.)
      * Yes, this is utterly crazy. After the banking royal commission, it's swung too far from easy credit to excessively difficult to get credit and being ultra cautious. Assets matter, and a proven track record of repayment matters, and an effective significant increase in the minimum income requirements matters too.
      * Banks should also reduce their minimum credit limits. The banks set these, not customers. By pushing these higher and higher, to $6000 and $15000 credit limits, they have created the risk in the first place. Make it say $2000 and $5000 respectively, and the cards would still be very useful, yet the banks would have significantly lower risk.

    • DemocracyManifest on 25/11/2019 - 12:04

      You must have been too truthful to be rejected by Latitude, they are a non bank lender

  • nutella9 on 12/11/2019 - 09:40

    I'd applied directly to Illion for this - and received a credit history report in all its gory detail - but no credit score - which was really the point of the request. This was using the free service. Did I request the wrong thing?

    • linkii on 12/11/2019 - 11:22

      The credit score is just a number. Noone actually uses it, banks looks at the details and make their own assessment based on that.

      Don't really need to worry about the number.

  • techlead on 12/11/2019 - 10:31

    This is the same as Credit simple. In the terms and conditions it says:

    "By proceeding, I accept Credit Simple's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and agree that Credit Simple may send me electronic communications related to my credit health report … "

  • Lucille Bluth on 12/11/2019 - 11:59

    Mine, only 6 inquiries in last 5 years
    equifax(933) and experian+illion (697)

  • saveapenny on 12/11/2019 - 15:05

    My score was 952. No credit cards. Prepaid phone.

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