Consumer complaint received 2021-07-20
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: MS
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports
Sub-product: Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report
Sub-issue: Reporting company used your report improperly

Complaint:
This letter is being sent to you in response to a listing on my credit report. Be advised that this is not a refusal to pay, but a notice sent pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 USC 1692g (Sec. 809) that your claim is disputed and validation is requested. I must demand proof of this debt, specifically the alleged contract or other instrument bearing my signature, as well as proof of your authority in this matter. Absent such proof, you must correct any erroneous reports of this past debt as mine. I ask you to provide the following information: 1. Please evidence your authorization under 15 USC 1692(e) and 15 USC 1692(f) in this alleged matter. 2. What is your authorization of law for your collection of information? 3. What is your authorization of law for your collection of this alleged debt? 4. Please evidence your authorization to do business or operate in this state. 5. Please evidence proof of the alleged debt, including specifically the alleged contract or other instrument bearing my signature.6. Please provide a complete account history, including any charges added for collection activity. You have thirty (30) days from receipt of this notice to respond. Your failure to respond, on point, in writing, hand signed, and in a timely manner, will work as a waiver to any and all of your claims in this matter, and will entitle me to presume that you placed this on my credit report(s) in error and that this matter is permanently closed. Provide the proof, or correct the record and remove this invalid debt from all sources to which you have reported it. For the purposes of 15 USC 1692 et seq., this Notice has the same effect as a dispute to the validity of the alleged debt and a dispute to the validity of your claims. This Notice is an attempt to correct your records, and any information received from you will be collected as evidence should further action be necessary. This is a request for information only, and is not a statement, election, or waiver of status. 

This letter is being sent to you in response to a listing on my credit report. Be advised that this is not a refusal to pay, but a notice sent pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 USC 1692g (Sec. 809) that your claim is disputed and validation is requested. I must demand proof of this debt, specifically the alleged contract or other instrument bearing my signature, as well as proof of your authority in this matter. Absent such proof, you must correct any erroneous reports of this past debt as mine. I ask you to provide the following information: 1. Please evidence your authorization under 15 USC 1692(e) and 15 USC 1692(f) in this alleged matter. 2. What is your authorization of law for your collection of information? 3. What is your authorization of law for your collection of this alleged debt? 4. Please evidence your authorization to do business or operate in this state. 5. Please evidence proof of the alleged debt, including specifically the alleged contract or other instrument bearing my signature.6. Please provide a complete account history, including any charges added for collection activity. You have thirty (30) days from receipt of this notice to respond. Your failure to respond, on point, in writing, hand signed, and in a timely manner, will work as a waiver to any and all of your claims in this matter, and will entitle me to presume that you placed this on my credit report(s) in error and that this matter is permanently closed. Provide the proof, or correct the record and remove this invalid debt from all sources to which you have reported it. For the purposes of 15 USC 1692 et seq., this Notice has the same effect as a dispute to the validity of the alleged debt and a dispute to the validity of your claims. This Notice is an attempt to correct your records, and any information received from you will be collected as evidence should further action be necessary. This is a request for information only, and is not a statement, election, or waiver of status. 


	
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Payment Status
Pays account as agreed
Paid or paying as agreed
Paid account/was 30 days past due date
Worst Delinquency
30 days past due
None Reported
30 days delinquent
Balance
$XXXX
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Pays account as agreed

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Worst Delinquency
90 days past due

90 days delinquent
Balance
$XXXX  

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None Reported
No update received
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None Reported
No update received
Balance

$XXXX  
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Pays account as agreed
Paid or paying as agreed
Paid account/was 30 days past due date
Worst Delinquency
None Reported
None Reported
30 days delinquent
Balance
$XXXX  $XXXX  
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No update received
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EQUIFAX	XXXX  XXXX  Last Updated
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Payment Status
Pays account as agreed

Account paid satisfactorily
Worst Delinquency
None Reported

No update received
Balance
$XXXX  

Credit Limit



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EQUIFAX	XXXX  XXXX  Last Updated
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Payment Status
Not more than three payments past due

Paid account/was delinquent 60 days past due date
Worst Delinquency
60 days past due

60 days delinquent
Balance
$XXXX  

Credit Limit
$XXXX  
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Paid account/XXXX  balance
Worst Delinquency


No update received
Balance



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Payment Status

Paid or paying as agreed
This is an account in good standing
Worst Delinquency

None Reported
No update received
Balance

$XXXX  
Credit Limit


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Payment Status


Unpaid balance reported as a loss by credit grantor
Worst Delinquency


Charge Off/Other Derog
Balance



Credit Limit


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EQUIFAX	XXXX  XXXX  Last Updated

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Payment Status

Paid or paying as agreed
Paid account/XXXX  balance
Worst Delinquency

None Reported
No update received
Balance

$XXXX  
Credit Limit



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EQUIFAX	XXXX  XXXX  Last Updated
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Payment Status
Pays account as agreed


Worst Delinquency
None Reported


Balance
$XXXX  

Credit Limit



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EQUIFAX	XXXX  XXXX
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XX/XX/XXXX
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Account paid satisfactorily
Worst Delinquency


No update received
Balance



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EQUIFAX	XXXX  XXXX  Last Updated
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Payment Status
Pays account as agreed


Worst Delinquency
None Reported


Balance
$XXXX  

Credit Limit



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Payment Status
Not more than two payments past due
30 days past due
Account 30 days past due date
Worst Delinquency
None Reported
None Reported
30 days delinquent
Balance
$XXXX  $XXXX  $XXXX  Credit Limit



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EQUIFAX	XXXX  XXXX  Last Updated
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Payment Status
Pays account as agreed
Paid or paying as agreed
Paid account/was 30 days past due date
Worst Delinquency
30 days past due
None Reported
30 days delinquent
Balance
$XXXX  $XXXX  
Credit Limit



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EQUIFAX	XXXX	XXXX  Last Updated
XX/XX/XXXX

XX/XX/XXXX
Payment Status
Pays account as agreed

Account renewed or refinanced
Worst Delinquency
90 days past due

90 days delinquent
Balance
$0


Credit Limit



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Payment Status
Pays account as agreed
30 days past due
Account was delinquent 60 days past due date/now 30 days past due date
Worst Delinquency
60 days past due
60 days past due
60 days delinquent
Balance
$XXXX  $XXXX
$XXXX  Credit Limit
$XXXX  $XXXX  $XXXX  Credit Utilization
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Payment Status

Paid or paying as agreed

Worst Delinquency

None Reported

Balance

$XXXX  
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EQUIFAX	XXXX  XXXX
Last Updated


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Payment Status


Unpaid balance reported as a loss by credit grantor
Worst Delinquency


Charge Off/Other Derog
Balance


$XXXX  Credit Limit


$XXXX  Credit Utilization


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Last Updated


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Unpaid balance reported as a loss by credit grantor
Worst Delinquency


Charge Off/Other Derog
Balance


$XXXX
Credit Limit



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EQUIFAX	XXXX  XXXX  Last Updated


XX/XX/XXXX
Payment Status


Current account/was delinquent 90 days past due date
Worst Delinquency


90 days delinquent
Balance


$XXXX  Credit Limit



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Payment Status
Pays account as agreed
Paid or paying as agreed
Current account/was delinquent 90 days past due date
Worst Delinquency
90 days past due
90 days past due
90 days delinquent
Balance
$XXXX  $XXXX  $XXXX  Credit Limit
$XXXX  $XXXX
$XXXX  2-YEAR PAYMENT HISTORY
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EQUIFAX	XXXX  XXXX  Last Updated
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XX/XX/XXXX
XX/XX/XXXX
Payment Status
Pays account as agreed
Paid or paying as agreed
Current account/was 30 days past due date
Worst Delinquency
30 days past due
None Reported
30 days delinquent
Balance
$XXXX  $XXXX  $XXXX  Credit Limit
$XXXX  $XXXX  $XXXX  Credit Utilization
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EQUIFAX	XXXX  XXXX  Last Updated
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XX/XX/XXXX
XX/XX/XXXX
Payment Status
Pays account as agreed
Paid or paying as agreed
Paid account/was 30 days past due date
Worst Delinquency
None Reported
None Reported
30 days delinquent
Balance
$XXXX  $XXXX  
Credit Limit



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XXXX XXXX CLOSED
EQUIFAX	XXXX  XXXX  Last Updated
XX/XX/XXXX

XX/XX/XXXX
Payment Status
Not more than three payments past due

Paid account/was delinquent 60 days past due date
Worst Delinquency
60 days past due

60 days delinquent
Balance
$XXXX  

Credit Limit
$XXXX  
$XXXX  2-YEAR PAYMENT HISTORY
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EQUIFAX	XXXX  XXXX  Last Updated


XX/XX/XXXX
Payment Status


Unpaid balance reported as a loss by credit grantor
Worst Delinquency


Charge Off/Other Derog
Balance



Credit Limit


$XXXX  2-YEAR PAYMENT HISTORY
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Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation