1) You can get a free credit report but the fact is your going to have to give up a credit card number. You wont be charged but yet your name will be sold to millions of telemarkating companies or spammers.
2) Pay basicly $30 for a tri-merge report...
3) Go to a friend that works in a loan type business such as mortgages, cars etc. and see if they can get you one for free.
Nothing is free in the world but this is just food for thought.