Consumer complaint received 2021-09-15
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: NJ
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:
*** To begin, I would like to ensure you have and ONLY RETAIN current, TRUE, CORRECT, COMPLETE and MANDATED REPORTED information per FCRA regulations, any and all others I DEMAND, as is my RIGHT ( s ) to do so, that you annul and all deficient of any condition, mentioned or not! I DO NOT AUTHORIZE you to mis-report any mis-information now or ever, please review and ENSURE your adequate and full accordance to the laws upon which govern your practice of reporting consumer credit profiles. 
My only first and last name are : XXXX XXXX My only address is : XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX, New Jersey XXXX I have provided a copy of my identification documents for you to verify my social security number and date of birth. 
I do NOT have any OTHER NAMES, ADDRESSES, SSNs or DOBs and I do NOT desire any OTHER personal information to be retained or reported, if ANY DELETE NOW or produce PROOF of your legitimate AUTHORITY to retain much less report without infringing my consumer rights or I will be forced to file a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. 
RE : Unauthorized and or possibly Fraudulent, certainly unproven to be compliant with mandated proof of permissible purpose allegation of Credit Inquiry ( ies ) by Original Creditors on my Equifax Credit Report.

To Whom It May Concern, In the course of recently screening my personal Equifax credit report, I observed what obviously appears to be likely some unauthorized and or fraudulent credit inquiries and undoubtedly ones deficient of the compliant proven permissible purpose ( to be retained or reported lawfully ) allegedly made by the following Original Creditors : 1. The inquiry was not authorized XXXX Date of inquiry : XX/XX/XXXX Please remove this inaccurate information from my credit report. 
2. The inquiry was not authorized XXXX  Date of inquiry : XX/XX/XXXX Please remove this inaccurate information from my credit report. 
3. The inquiry was not authorized XXXX  Date of inquiry : XX/XX/XXXX Please remove this inaccurate information from my credit report. 
4. The inquiry was not authorized XXXX Date of inquiry : XX/XX/XXXX Please remove this inaccurate information from my credit report. 
5. The inquiry was not authorized XXXX  Date of inquiry : XX/XX/XXXX Please remove this inaccurate information from my credit report. 
6. The inquiry was not authorized XXXX Date of inquiry : XX/XX/XXXX Please remove this inaccurate information from my credit report. 
7. The inquiry was not authorized XXXX Date of inquiry : XX/XX/XXXX Please remove this inaccurate information from my credit report. 
8. The inquiry was not authorized XXXX  Date of inquiry : XX/XX/XXXX Please remove this inaccurate information from my credit report. 
9. PLEASE VERIFY IDENTITY OWNERSHIP AND ACCURACY OF THIS ACCOUNT. 
XXXX Account Number : XXXX This account that is being reported negative on my credit report does not seem to be reporting accurately and legally per the Fair Credit Reporting Act ( FCRA ). You must prove that I in fact applied for this account and am the rightful owner of this account or it must be deleted from my credit report for being unable to verify my identity. This would be a violation of the FCRA and METRO 2 reporting guidelines set forth by the CDIA. Therefore, please remove this account or I would be forced to file a complaint with the proper authorities for reporting inaccurate information and a case of possible mistaken identity.

I compel you to demonstrate the mandated physically verifiable proof of adequately achieved permissible purpose from the exactly lawfully identified me and or any entity legally able to render such authority or else annul via full deletion of the entire unproven derogatory allegation ( s ) of inquiry claim made versus me deficient of federal reporting compliance unjustly or proof thereof.

To date, there is no testimonial certificate of facts that irrefutably display that I did indeed knowingly and agreeably authorize anyone employed by this company to make any inquiry and view my Equifax credit report on this ( these ) specific dates alleged if any dates ever at all. It is my contention that either the Original Creditor ( s ) have ( has ) violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act Section 1681b ( c )., or can not or will not demonstrate evidence of doing so compliantly to reporting standards as requisite by consumer reporting regulatory laws and practices. Might it be that in reality that they were not legally entitled to make these potentially fraudulent inquiries? Obviously, you can see as I do and also as would any deciding court should I seek suit versus you that this is a serious breach of my privacy much less my consumer and potentially my civil rights. Make addend corrections now to relieve yourself of foul position of non-compliance to reporting obligations so to retain or return to the appropriate status of certified XXXX XXXX compliant reporting more over 100 % provable true, correct, complete, and timely reporting. 
Let there be no mistake that I am requesting that the alleging entities currently unproven to be compliant to immediately mail me a copy of my signed authorization form that gave them the right to view my credit within five ( 5 ) business days so that I can verify its validity. If need be I will require that you advised them that if they can not provide me with proof that I authorized them to view my credit report then I am within my consumer and civil rights in my demanding that they contact the credit bureaus, including you Equifax, immediately so to adequately make rectifiable removal of every one even each any and or all of the deficient of compliant unauthorized and or fraudulent hard inquiries which clearly lack demonstrated permissible purpose as required.

To that end, further, I am also requesting that they remove any and all of my personal information from their records.

The last 4 of my SS # : XXXX and my Date of Birth : XX/XX/XXXX in case it is needed to locate the potentially injurious and fraudulent inquiry in their system.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation