When you call the phone number for TransUnion- you get pitched a variety of other services such as XXXX XXXX auto insurance, XXXX XXXX, and free vacations. Meanwhile, you can not get through to a human being who can explain how to activate either a fraud alert requiring notification and permission for anyone to run a credit check on you or a credit freeze. How can an organization like Trans Union who has so much power over the average person 's lives be so disrespectful of communicating with us apparently perceived 'little people. ' Thankfully, I have XXXX who did find a phone number for me and wound up teaching me how to set up an account at Transunion and to notify me of the option of placing an alert on the account, and how to complain to the FTC about it!