Consumer complaint received 2023-07-25
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: FL
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports
Sub-product: Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report
Sub-issue: Credit inquiries on your report that you don't recognize

Complaint:
I have inquiries on my credit report that I did not authorize or recognize. I have contacted the credit reporting company and bureaus and notify them that they are not my inquiries please have them do their job and delete these based off of FCRA laws is identity theft. Once the credit bureaus are reporting some thing without my consent. I have notified them and told them that it is not mines. They have told me that they investigated just to come back and put verified or actually that is against the law, and want us to be investigated, then deleted There have been so many is broken in by a credit bureaus below I have stated for from 1681b 1681i, 1681C 1,1681c-2 15 U.S. Code 1681i Treatment of inaccurate or unverifiable information ( A ) In general If, after any reinvestigation under paragraph ( 1 ) of any information disputed by a consumer, an item of the information is found to be inaccurate or incomplete or can not be verified, the consumer reporting agency shall ( i ) promptly delete that item of information from the file of the consumer, or modify that item of information, as appropriate, based on the results of the reinvestigation ; and ( ii ) promptly notify the furnisher of that information that the information has been modified or deleted from the file of the consumer.

1681b. Permissible purposes of consumer reports ( a ) In general Subject to subsection ( c ) of this section, any consumer reporting agency may furnish a consumer report under the following circumstances and no other : ( 1 ) In response to the order of a court having jurisdiction to issue such an order, or a subpoena issued in connection with proceedings before a Federal grand jury. ( 2 ) In accordance with the written instructions of the consumer to whom it relates. ( 3 ) To a person which it has reason to believe ( A ) intends to use the information in connection with a credit transaction involving the consumer on whom the information is to be furnished and involving the extension of credit to, or review or collection of an account of, the consumer ; or 15 USC 1681c-1 ( 2011 ) 1681c1. Identity theft prevention ; fraud alerts and active duty alerts ( a ) One-call fraud alerts ( 1 ) Initial alerts Upon the direct request of a consumer, or an individual acting on behalf of or as a personal representative of a consumer, who asserts in good faith a suspicion that the consumer has been or is about to become a victim of fraud or related crime, including identity theft, a consumer reporting agency described in section 1681a ( p ) of this title that maintains a file on the consumer and has received appropriate proof of the identity of the requester shall ( A ) include a fraud alert in the file of that consumer, and also provide that alert along with any credit score generated in using that file, for a period of not less than 90 days, beginning on the date of such request, unless the consumer or such representative requests that such fraud alert be removed before the end of such period, and the agency has received appropriate proof of the identity of the requester for such purpose; and ( B ) refer the information regarding the fraud alert under this paragraph to each of the other consumer reporting agencies described in section 1681a ( p ) of this title, in accordance with procedures developed under section 1681s ( f ) of this title.

15 U.S. Code 1681c2 - Block of information resulting from identity theft ( a ) BLOCK Except as otherwise provided in this section, a consumer reporting agency shall block the reporting of any information in the file of a consumer that the consumer identifies as information that resulted from an alleged identity theft, not later than 4 business days after the date of receipt by such appropriate proof of the identity of the consumer ; a copy of an identity theft report ; the identification of such information by the consumer ; and a statement by the consumer that the information is not information relating to any transaction by the consumer. ( b ) NOTIFICATION A consumer reporting agency shall promptly notify the furnisher of information identified by the consumer under subsection ( a ) - that the information may be a result of identity theft ; that an identity theft report has been filed ; that a block has been requested under this section ; and of the effective dates of the block Inquirys that are illegally being reported on my credit report Inquiries to delete off report from Equifax XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation