AdiOO7/consumer_complaints huggingface dataset:
Consumer complaint: In XX/XX/XXXX my husband and I took on a line of XXXX XXXX via Barclay Card in order to buy a computer. The credit line was advertised as XXXX months, no interest. Two years later, in XXXX of this year I was blindsided by a {$630.00} interest charge on my account. I inquired with the creditor and this was their response : '' Our records show that you received an extended amount of time to pay off your XXXX purchase without receiving finance charges. Where the purchase was not paid in full by XX/XX/XXXX, finance charges were calculated from the original date of purchase and billed to your account in the amount of {$630.00}. 

" We would like to inform you that we placed numerous reminders on your monthly statements informing you that the expiration time is approaching and that you need to pay the purchase in full to avoid being assessed finance charges. We also send you a number of informational emails that would have provided you with additional information on how deferred financing works, as well as reminders, explaining that your purchase needs to be paid off by the expiration date provided on your monthly statements. " Though the company says I was sent " informational emails '' and " reminders '' I do not recall any of these. I had no clue a finance charge bomb was looming -- or that creditors were allowed to do such a thing. I was under the impression that this line of credit, although an albatross I could n't wait to pay off, was in good standing. Now my balance is over the approved line of credit and I owe more than I originally charged for the computer. I know this is no subprime loan, but it seems like these practices should be illegal. And of course, I know I 'm not the only XXXX who needed a computer and had no cash in hand. 

Company response: Company chooses not to provide a public response
Consumer complaint: I ran into problems paying them back and worked out an installment agreement. I requested ( XXXX ) times verbally for them to cease and desist from all attempts to call me because they kept calling me at work. I asked them to stop calling me at work but they continued to call. 

Company response: Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Consumer complaint: When I moved to XXXX XX/XX/2011 I lived for tree months in XXXX with friends after that I moved to XXXX but after the I start receiving call from a collection agency asking me to pay my bill to XXXX XXXX I told them i do n't have account with no body I still new in the XXXX I never have a Appartement under my name yet but they put it in my credit and now when I Learned a little about credit I dispute it but the credit bureaux they keep report it, I ca n't pay a bill not mine please make investigation I need help because this is what 's happened 

Company response: Company chooses not to provide a public response
Consumer complaint: I contacted Citibank about a balance transfer issue and complained about the length of time it was taking to post my transfer. They said because it was a new card it could take 14 days. However, I reasoned, that because they had just " borrowed '' from my credit limit from another Citi account, it essentially was not a new card, they basically split XXXX account into XXXX. Meanwhile, this is costing me interest with the account that I am trying to transfer. 

Company response: Company chooses not to provide a public response
Consumer complaint: XXXX apartments XXXX XXXX Texas - Sent XXXX different amounts within a month, none of them in regards to my contract - made accusations that are not true 

Company response: Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Consumer complaint: I received a letter from Wells Fargo XXXX XXXX OFFERING me an increase on my card and stating all I had to do was call the number ... XXXX ... to answer a few questions. Little did I realize what would result. The rep asked my income and I told her. It is higher by about {$5000.00} than when I got the card. The letter states : your account must be open, in good standing, and your credit limit must not have changed in the past three months. '' Great ... that 's me. A person named " XXXX '' or " XXXX '' said, sorry my income does n't meet the requirements. I disagreed and asked to speak to her supervisor. My income is more and my debt less, so I do n't understand. XXXX told me she would have the supervisor email me later and I said I 'd rather hold and speak to the supervisor ... .and after a hold of about XXXX minutes, someone who identified herself as " XXXX XXXX '' spoke with me and reiterated what was said. The supervisor was fake understanding and conciliatory but would not understand my point. My main complaint is the letter and their tactics were deceptive. The letter never said I would have to requalify and prove my income. According to the letter, I fulfilled all the criteria, and they said they were raising the limit, I did n't ask. Adding insult to injury, I am a Wells Fargo customer with a checking account and a home mortgage with them. 

Company response: Company chooses not to provide a public response
Consumer complaint: I switched cell phone carriers in XXXX of 2013. XXXX XXXX XXXX to XXXX. Was able to keep my cell phone numbers upon switching companies. Contract with XXXX XXXX XXXX was complete. I had been with that company when it was XXXX. That 's how long I was with XXXX XXXX XXXX. Received a call from XXXX XXXX XXXX about two months after swapping carriers. XXXX informed me that I owed them equipment charge taxes which was over {$200.00}. I asked them why they said It was for their equipment taxes? I said I never heard anything about taxes when I switched. After a brief discussion the representative said not to worry I had been with the company for a extended time and they would just waive the tax charge. I thought that was the end of the story. It did not end there. Enhanced Recovery Company out of XXXX Florida enters the scene one year later with collection on my credit report. This is straight bogus and I have dispute with all XXXX credit report agencies and all they do is after XXXX month is say its legitimate and it will stay on my report. They do not even make that company show any proof that I owe anything. They are asking for {$810.00} to settle this claim. I owe no XXXX anything at all. Please help me remove this from my credit report and make this company report correct collections. They are causing a lot of pain while doing thisXXXX XXXX 

Company response: Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Consumer complaint: I became a victim of ID theft in XXXX and in XXXX I was informed by the IRS that some one had filed my income tax return using my personal details and when i had my XXXX report pulled because i am trying to purchase my XXXX home. I was subsequently informed that I had a large amount of debts in collection. I requested my free reports and found that I have ( XXXX ) medical entries that do not belong to me. i contacted the ( XXXX ) bureaus and informed them that i wanted to file a dispute ; immediately I contacted the debt holders and informed them that i was a victim of ID theft and I needed them to send me written validation of the account and information detail where and how the account was opened. All that has transpired since my initial contact since XXXX from my efforts was a security alert being placed on my file. 

Company response: Company can't verify or dispute the facts in the complaint
Consumer complaint: In XXXX of XXXX, I purchased a XXXX XXXX XXXX from XXXX XXXX. On XXXX XXXX, XXXX, I was declared permanently XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX of XXXX, and medically-mandated to stop working permanently. This meant I would no longer receive a paycheck, thus could no longer afford financial obligations I could afford while working. I contacted my creditors, including XXXX XXXX. I advised XXXX that with I must Voluntarily Surrender my vehicle. With no salary, I could no longer continue my approximately $ XXXX auto payments. I carefully and diplomatically arranged a time and place to return the vehicle, and had it Voluntarily Surrendered at a designated XXXX dealership. Not until XXXX XXXX, XXXX, when I tried to rent an apartment, did I learn that XXXX XXXX had reported this Voluntary Surrender as something else - a Repossession - to XXXX, Experian and XXXX. I called XXXX XXXX and was told by an agent that " XXXX considers a Voluntary Surrender and a Repo the same thing ''. This inaccurate reporting by XXXX of a " Repo '' of the XXXX XXXX violates The Fair Credit Reporting Act. ( Subpart E of Regulation V, 12 C.F.R. SS 1022.42 ( a ), the implementing regulation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. SS 1681, et seq ( FCRA ). Firstly, they are not the same in any circumstance. I had no ill intent, and most strongly, I had no choice, as XXXX and the inability to work were not my choices. I believe XXXX 's irresponsible wording may amount to XXXX Discrimination, as were the harassing phone calls, " It 's not XXXX 's fault you 're sick! '' and XXXX 's law suit against me. Because of this misreporting, my credit score dropped from its usual XXXX to a ( last-heard ) XXXX. I subsist on XXXX XXXX income, which is protected from garnishment. I have been unable to rent an apartment and have been homeless since XXXX XXXX, XXXX. I have no documents available to me to attach, as my belongings are in storage. I would invite XXXX to show any evidence whatsoever of a " Repo ''. 

Company response: Company chooses not to provide a public response
Consumer complaint: I recently recieved a letter from an attorney named Mark Johnson LLC dated XXXX/XXXX/15 in which they state I owe a balance of {$320.00} for a judgment with no case number given. This is XXXX of many demands for payment made by this company over the last couple of years. They have issued several garnishments against my wages in the last XXXX years. The last garnishment was confimed as paid in full by my employer 's payroll department and XXXX County Sheriff approximately XXXX. I have not recieved responses to previous requests for validation of the debt and/or confirmation of previous monies recieved. I believe this law firm is repeatedly attempting to collect on a debt that has been paid multiple times 

Company response: Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Consumer complaint: 1. XXXX admits that it did not process my earned income tax repayment plan paperwork when they received my direct loan consolidation. 
2. They have no explanation for why my paperwork was not processed. 
3. As a result of this, my loan automatically was classified under a standard repayment plan. I did not know this at the time, though. 
4. My account statements were going to an email address that was no longer being used, so I did not catch their error in time. 
5. My credit report became affected. 
6. I was promised over the phone that was loan consolidation was final and that my payment would be zero dollars. 
7. When I found out what was actually happening, I asked a representative to pull up my phone calls. They claim it is not possible to review calls past 90 days. Is this true? 
8. I escalated the issue with a supervisor. I was told they were actively working on this. I was told that " because the paperwork was never processed, they might backdate it, but to hang tight while we sort this out for you. " 8. I left the issue alone for a week to allow them enough time to correct the error. 
9. I never heard back as was promised, so I naturally called in asking for an update. I was told " your credit report was not affected and we took care of this for you. '' I said, " Great. That 's a relief off my shoulders. '' The rep said, " after review, though, it turns out because of XXXX loan you had in the past, you instead qualified for the income based repayment plan and were given those repayment terms. '' I clarified several times on the call that my future monthly payment of XXXX. 
10. I left the issue alone, because I thought the issue was settled. It was n't. My credit was reported as reported being past due. 
11. I called in, again, and the rep still maintained that my credit was not adversely reported. I pressed them on this, stating that I was looking directly at my report, and the rep eventually admitted that this was true. I also found out that I do, in fact, have a monthly balance due every month. I requested at this time that a previous rep informed me that my balance would be XXXX, and formally requested that the previous call be reviewed. 
12. During my last phone call with XXXX, a supervisor told me that this is " still under review. '' I asked her " why do n't I have a past due balance? '' She stated " you were given an administrative forbearance. '' I replied, " I did not ask for this. Why would XXXX do that? '' She stated that " it was done to rectify what happened on the account but that is still under review. '' I said : '' Well, it 's either my fault or it 's not. Either my credit report gets reported accurately or you come after me for the past due balance. I do not want a middle ground. It 's not fair to hold me accountable for a past due balance that you had no intentions of holding me to after admitting you never processed my paperwork. " The only answer I have been given so far to justify the adverse credit reporting is " you should have caught our error sooner. We sent out statements. '' 

Company response: Company chooses not to provide a public response
Consumer complaint: This is a follow up to a previous case filed with the CFPB. 

In XXXX, XXXX the HAMP & HARP programs were being covered heavily in the media, so I called the number advertised to find out if our mortgage might be eligible for a modification. I soon found out that though our paperwork from Wachovia ( now owned by Wells Fargo ) said MORTGAGE across the top, we had a home equity loan which was not eligible. 

I contacted the State of Florida and not long after was contacted by XXXX XXXX from the XXXX office. By XXXX XXXX, things seemed to start rolling. We were formally switched in the Wells Fargo System to a mortgage. But it took them 2 YEARS to do the modification! 

We complied with every request and their " trial period '' payment changes. We were always XXXX month AHEAD in our payments. Never behind. Our payments sat in " unapplied funds '' for months. They even failed to pay our property taxes in a timely manner. Towards the end of the ordeal my husband and I received endless " robo '' collection calls to our home and cell phones. We must of explained our situation to over XXXX different employees to no avail. Calls were coming while I was sitting with my father in the hospital. It was extremely stressful! My husband and I finally stopped answering our phones after both completely losing our tempers with employees. 

I eventually filed a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and suddenly Wells Fargo was on it again. They finally modified the mortgage in XXXX, but I just do n't feel like it was handled correctly. My property taxes the past two years seem really off. I had a local accountant review the numbers and was basically told the accounting is n't anywhere close to be correct. 

My dad and husband both had serious health issues last year and into the beginning of XXXX which kept me from addressing this issue until now. 

We feel Fair Debt Collection Practices Act were clearly violated in our situation as we were being HOUNDED for past due money that was not past due at all, but incorrectly accounted for within Wells Fargo 's own system. I also found that XXXX Wells Fargo Bank sounds a LOT like our case. 

Company response: Company chooses not to provide a public response
Consumer complaint: Sent notice to cease and dismiss collecting Written Off debt that is over the Statute of Limitations to sue, along with all communications with us or any member of our family. This was to include but not limited to telephone calls, letters and personal interviews. They also responded by letter using fraudulent documents along with misrepresentation and deceit. 

Company response: Company chooses not to provide a public response
Consumer complaint: I sent a letter to all parties that I think might hold my mortgage to telling them that I heard about the supreme court case regarding rescission. Because I filed the notice when I found out I was not getting any cash out of the refi I sent a notice to rescind and have a copy of the actual form. Green Tree replied to my request by asking me to provide proof of the date it was received before the deadline. They are missing the point of the XXXX v XXXX home loans, is that recission starts the moment it is dropped into the mailbox, not when they receive it. I was told at the time that they did not get it before the expiration date. But they did get it. I was lied to by title agents about the terms of the loan. I asked them to honor my request for rescission which was originally directed to XXXX. The right to rescind the loan expiration contingent upon any cash being given out of the refi to be intentionally misleading. I was never told I had to wait until expiration of rescission or that if I did not get cash out I would still be under the terms of the loan. See enclosed letters from both myself and Green tree. 

Company response: Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Consumer complaint: I signed up for the real estate investor 's education with XXXX. XXXX has a relationship with the Universal Account Servicing ( UAS ) to finance the tuition. When I got the call from UAS asking me to verify my address, I told them to send it to the address they received from XXXX if they are associated with them. 
I received XXXX letters dated XXXX XXXX ( please see the attachment ). The first XXXX had the privacy policy. 
The second letter was dated XXXX XXXX, but the first payment was due on XXXX XXXX. 
The first bill received on XXXX was for the period of XXXX to XXXX ( 13 days ) and it already had past due amount of {$200.00}, interest charged {$35.00} and payment for those 13 days also {$200.00}. There was the new amount on the loan too. 
When I called them on XXXX to talk to them thinking without any doubt that they will correct all these errors on the spot, I was in for a big surprise. In a very impolite and unprofessional manner, they refused to correct anything, they said that the charges are justified and that they are in business of making money on charges, so there 's no way they will wave any of them even though it was the first bill. It is important to mention that they 're calling me every day several times, from early in the morning, while I 'm at work, but when I call them back, they are very uncooperative ( I have also attached the list of their calls ). I tried calling several times asking to talk to different people ( XXXX ext XXXX, XXXX ext XXXX, XXXX ext XXXX ), but I was never able to reach these people at these extensions. The last time I called and they told me they are recording the conversation, I said that 's a good idea and I will be doing the same because they are so unprofessional and not very knowledgeable in my opinion, and they simply hang up on me. I wonder how legitimate is this business. 

Company response: Company believes complaint represents an opportunity for improvement to better serve consumers
Consumer complaint: I payed off my car loan through Ally Auto on Saturday XXXX XXXX. The payoff amount was taken out of my account on XXXX XXXX 2015. I called on Wednesday XXXX XXXX to see when I can expect my lien release. The response was 10 days for the money to clear ( although my car loan account listed XXXX balance and the pay off monies was taken out of my checking account ). I then explained that that was ok but at the 10 days I would need to have the lien release note as I sold the car and the buyer only has 14 days to get the title into her name. Ally then told me the paperwork would be mailed to me after the 10 days and it would take 5 to 7 business days. Again I discussed the unsatisfactory time frame. I was told I could request a fax copy after the 10 day money clear timeframe but the fax would then have a 48 hour hold on it after I request it. This hold happens over a weekend so in reality the title will still be over the 14 day mark set by the State of Michigan. I was not informed in my loan paperwork that this event would take up to 17 days to complete if I chose to sell my vehicle before the loan was payed off. 

Company response: Company chooses not to provide a public response
Consumer complaint: Wells Fargo Home Morgage is sending me Certified Letters referring to " my loan '' that is in default for a home loan I never entered into. My spouse refinanced a home loan in XX/XX/XXXX and I was never on the application, never signed and never entered into any financial obligation with Wells Fargo. Since my spouse had this debt discharged in bankruptcy in XX/XX/XXXX, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage is attempting to collect from me. THIS IS NOT MY DEBT. I never signed any Promissory Note, loan application or other loan documents. I also completed a Quit Claim Deed in XX/XX/XXXX in which I released/conveyed any legal interesest in the property. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage should not be sending me any correspondence and I should not even be involved as I am not an owner and NEVER participated in, not signed any loan documents. This is not my debt. They are threatening to take action and I do not have funds to hire attorneys. They know this is not legally my debt and they know I am not an owner of this property. They have ignored correspondence reminding them of this. I need help to have them stop harassing me for a debt that is not mine. Wells Fargo is known for deceptive and unethical business practices as evidenced by court cases involving this. I have many medical issues and unable to work and therefore, am not able to deal with being illegally harassed for debt that has never been my debt and for issues regarding a property for which they known I am not an owner. Please help me stop the harassment by and unethical, illegal practices by Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. Thank you! 

Company response: Company chooses not to provide a public response
Consumer complaint: I became a victim of ID theft in XXXX and in XXXX I was informed by the IRS that someone had filed my income tax return using my personal details and when i had my XXXX report pulled because i am trying to purchase my XXXX home. I was subsequently informed that I had a large amount of debts in collection. I requested my free reports and found that I have ( XXXX ) medical entries that do not belong to me. i contacted the ( XXXX ) bureaus and informed them that i wanted to file a dispute ; immediately I contacted the debt holders and informed them that i was a victim of ID theft and I needed them to send me written validation of the account and information detail where and how the account was opened. All that has transpired since my initial contact since XXXX from my efforts was a security alert being placed on my file. 

Company response: Company chooses not to provide a public response
Consumer complaint: I received a credit card statement from BankAmericard mailed to my home for a card that I do NOT have and NEVER have had. I have called them and written directly to BankAmericard without any success in resolving this issue. 

Company response: Company chooses not to provide a public response
Consumer complaint: I have sent numerous letters, police reports and made number phone calls into in regards to the fraudulent U.S. Bank checking and savings accounts ending in : XXXX, XXXX and XXXX. These checking and savings accounts are fraudulent accounts that was opened by someone else who stole my personal information and identity. At the time these accounts was opened, I was incarcerated from XX/XX/XXXX to XX/XX/XXXX. I have attached supporting documentation that I was incarcerated. 

Company response: Company chooses not to provide a public response