Consumer complaint received 2021-04-13
Company: AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY
State: NY
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports
Sub-product: Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report
Sub-issue: Information belongs to someone else

Complaint:
UNTHICAL AND FRAUD ACTIVIGTIES BY AMERICAN EXPRESS 1. Violation of the Fair Credit ACT for changing the address on the accounts without my authorized request to do so- Amex learned about my address by filing a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in which I had to list my home address. I will send you such false claim they have made when I never put any verbal request or written request for change of address. 
2. Violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practice Act, FDCPA since they are passing a business debt as a consumer debt by using deceptive practices to collect a business debt. FDCPA only deals with consumer debts, thus unclear why a business debt is being attempted to be collected as if it was a consumer debt. 
3. Breach of contract -since the application was taken under a business name with business tax ID and I was the signor. As the signor, I never signed any separate agreement to agree to pay the debt of the business which is a corporation in case of the corporation defaults on paying its debts. As you know, Paying the Debt of another is contract that needs to be in writing and in absence of such written agreement, I can not be responsible for the debt of the corporation which is a person other than me, the signor. This would only if the business was a sole proprietorship where the business and the owner are the same person. The business is governed by Corporate Law where an officer of a corporation is not responsible for the debt of the corporation, unless this officer signed an agreement to guarantee the debt. Thus asking Amex to produce such agreement will be impossible to produce since it does not exist.

4. When I asked Amex to validate the debt, they sent me 1 a letter on a grey scale sheet which suggests to me the letters were doctored with the wrong date since both card was issued in XXXX respectively and not in XXXX as suggested by the letter. 
American Express assumes that I do not understand the law and their bogus letters mean anything when debt can be validated by producing a copy of the signed credit card applications and the credit card agreement signed credit card agreement. They refused to produce such documents as they will show that the application was under the business name and Tax ID and not under my personal name and Tax ID and the credit card agreements were business credit card agreements and not personal credit card agreements. So, you have unethical employees who work in recovery using underhanded tactics to collect illegitimate debt not owed by me personally. Regardless Amex senior management knows what is going on or not does not matter since these employees are the face of American Express and whatever they do bind Amex. 

How I want this to resolve is to have the Amex debt of XXXX dollars removed from my personal credit reports with XXXX immediately within 15 days and to immediately remove the account.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation