6 weird credit score strategies

By CreditCards.com November 26, 2012, 08:00:00 AM EDT

Some people go to extremes to try and improve their credit scores, adopting tactics that can seem, well, a bit unusual. What's even odder is that a few of them actually work. Here's a look at six such ideas -- good, bad and in-between.

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