Consumer complaint received 2022-08-22
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: TX
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports
Sub-product: Credit reporting
Issue: Problem with a credit reporting company's investigation into an existing problem
Sub-issue: Their investigation did not fix an error on your report

Complaint:
My name is XXXX XXXX a nature person and I am filing this complaint. Based on my research and the efforts made to clear this matter up, based on the rights and laws that are in place to protect my rights. My credit report is reporting incorrect, no even my name and address are correct. I have provided a detail case, with the attached. I want these accounts removed from my file and 30 days is much to long to wait, as I have worked with them and they will not operate in good faith. I have attached clear and apparent proof of these facts and it should be fairly easy to remove these items from the report, as the 30 day window has passed several times over to no avail. The following are the violations conducted upon me. 

XXXX. ( FACT ) The following entities listed below have and continue to violate the Federal laws, that have grant me, by the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Fair Debt Collection Practices. I have dealt in good faith from 2021 to this present and to no avail. The following entities have refuse to correct the blatant and obvious errors on my credit report, as required by the following Federal 15 USC codes : XXXX, XXXX, EQUIFAX ( EQUIFAX CREDIT INFORMATION SERVICES ) and XXXX XXXX XXXX, XXXX,. XXXXXXXX XXXX and XXXXXXXX XXXX 

XXXX. ( FACT ) 1681 ( a ) ( 4 ) & B1681b ( a ) ( 2 ) Accuracy and fairness of credit reporting There is a need to insure that consumer reporting agencies exercise their grave responsibilities with fairness, impartiality, and a respect for the consumers right to privacy ( FACT ) 1681b ( a ) ( 2 ) ( a ) Subject to subsection ( c ), any consumer reporting agency may furnish a consumer report under the following circumstances and no other : ( 2 ) In accordance with the written instructions of the consumer to whom it relates. 

XXXX. ( FACT ) 1681i ( 2 ) ( A ) & ( B ) ( 2 ) PROMPT NOTICE OF DISPUTE TO FURNISHER OF INFORMATION ( A ) Before the expiration of the 5-business-day period beginning on the date on which a consumer reporting agency receives notice of a dispute from any consumer or a reseller in accordance with paragraph ( 1 ), the agency shall provide notification of the dispute to any person who provided any item of information in dispute, at the address and in the manner established with the person. The notice shall include all relevant information regarding the dispute that the agency has received from the consumer or reseller. 

( FACT ) 1681i ( 2 ) ( B ) ( B ) Provision of other information The consumer reporting agency shall promptly provide to the person who provided the information in dispute all relevant information regarding the dispute that is received by the agency from the consumer or the reseller after the period referred to in subparagraph ( A ) and before the end of the period referred to in paragraph ( 1 ) ( A ). 

XXXX. ( FACT ) 1681c ( a ) & ( 5 ) ( a ) INFORMATION EXCLUDED FROM CONSUMER REPORTS Except as authorized under subsection ( b ), no consumer reporting agency may make any consumer report containing any of the following items of information : ( 5 ) Any other adverse item of information, other than records of convictions of crimes which antedates the report by more than seven years. 

XXXX. ( FACT ) 1681s-2 ( a ) ( b ) ( i ) ( ii ) ( A ) Reporting information with actual knowledge of errors A person shall not furnish any information relating to a consumer to any consumer reporting agency if the person knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the information is inaccurate. 
( B ) Reporting information after notice and confirmation of errors. A person shall not furnish information relating to a consumer to any consumer reporting agency if ( i ) the person has been notified by the consumer, at the address specified by the person for such notices, that specific information is inaccurate; and ( ii ) the information is, in fact, inaccurate. 

XXXX. ( FACT ) 1692b ( 2 ) ( 5 ) Any debt collector communicating with any person other than the consumer for the purpose of acquiring location information about the consumer shall 2 ) not state that such consumer owes any debt ; ( 5 ) not use any language or symbol on any envelope or in the contents of any communication effected by the mails or telegram that indicates that the debt collector is in the debt collection business or that the communication relates to the collection of a debt. The Debt collector verbiage is offensive to me and makes me very upset and drives my XXXX XXXX up.. I am offended that this debt hasnt been removed and I have received documents that are clearly altered and edited. In my belief and based on documents I received. 

XXXX. ( FACT ) 1692C ( A ) ( A ) COMMUNICATION WITH THE CONSUMER GENERALLY. Without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collector or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction, a debt collector may not communicate with a consumer in connection with the collection of a Debt. 

XXXX. ( FACT ) 1692D ( 2 ) A debt collector may not engage in any conduct the natural consequence of which is to harass, oppress, or abuse any person in connection with the collection of a debt. Without limiting the general application of the foregoing, the following conduct is a violation of this section : ( 2 ) The use of obscene or profane language or language the natural consequence of which is to abuse the hearer or reader. 
The language is offensive, Debt Collector, balance amount due are very offensive, when my request for a investigation and validation has not been conducted as set forth by Federal law. 
The entities have oppressed my financially and harmed my quality of life. I feel worried and XXXX when I check the mail or every time my phone rings. They have continuously abused my rights for over a year now, by not correcting the errors that I have documented time and time again. The financial hardship and XXXX created by the continuous certified mailing to all parties involved. The cost of these mailings has a large financial commitment attached to them. 
XXXX. ( FACT ) 1681n ( a ) ( 1 ) Any person who willfully fails to comply with any requirement imposed under this subchapter with respect to any consumer is liable to that consumer in an amount equal to the sum of ( 1 ) any actual damages sustained by the consumer as a result of the failure or damages of not less than {$100.00} and not more than {$1000.00}. 

XXXX. ( FACT ) Improper investigation and/or no investigation conducted as prescribed by the following terms of investigation. 
1681 ( a ) ( e ) ( e ) The term investigative consumer report means a consumer report or portion thereof in which information on a consumers character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living is obtained through personal interviews with neighbors, friends, or associates of the consumer reported on or with others with whom he is acquainted or who may have knowledge concerning any such items of information. 
However, such information shall not include specific factual information on a consumers credit record obtained directly from a creditor of the consumer or from a consumer reporting agency when such information was obtained directly from a creditor of the consumer or from the consumer. 

All entities involved have stated several times that the account ( s ) have been verified, validated and investigated. Yet based on the credit reports, all data must be 100 percent accurate or be removed. The credit reports differ and has information between all XXXX reports, that are completely different. ( Drastically different ) See attached credit report.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation