Consumer complaint received 2023-10-01
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: AL
Product: Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports
Sub-product: Credit reporting
Issue: Problem with a company's investigation into an existing problem
Sub-issue: Was not notified of investigation status or results

Complaint:
Due to violation, I have Witnessed a charge off/ closed account on my credit report, regarding XXXX XXXX XXXX Under the Privacy Act of 1974, there was a violation on XXXX XXXX XXXX charge off which discloses reported Transactions History to XXXX, which I did not consent too. It is Illegal to report Transaction History According to the Privacy Act of 1974 and Security Fraud for selling my contract to another lender. Which is a violation with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I am requesting XXXX XXXX XXXX- to remove any and all Transaction History According to the Privacy Act of 1974, and inaccuracy on Account XXXX or I will be forced to report you to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau . Please provide Auction receipt of vehicle that was repossessed, requesting payment insurance, Gap insurance gave me notice of a refund pay off of the debt with XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX  which is paid off through auction/ debt buyer. I demand deletion of this repossession history off my credit report which I did not give you consent to report or share which is violation of privacy act of 1974. A collection/charge off is considered a Certificate of indebtedness. XXXX XXXX XXXX does not securitize the account/ contract certificate of indebtedness that specifies obligations of the borrower to the holder of the bond. The contract was securitize by the seller/creditor, which was purchased by the debt collector agency, XXXX XXXX XXXX, which voids out the contract with original creditor for the breach of contract of the Electronic Funds Transfer Act of 1978 by not getting consent from party within the contract. An error under Electronic Fund Transfer Act ( EFTA ) of 1978 and Regulation E includes any of the following : An unauthorized ( EFT ) Electronic Fund Transfer. An incorrect EFT to or from the consumer 's account. The omission from a periodic statement of an Electronic Fund Transfer ( EFT ) to or from the consumer 's account that should have been included. violation of Electronic Transfer Act of 1978, violation of Securities Exchange Act of 1934. I request this account be Deleted immediately or I will be force to make a claim with Consumer Financial Bureau. 15 USC 1681 ( i ) ( a ) ( 1A ) In general. Subject to subsection ( f ), and except as provided in subsection ( g ) if the completeness or accuracy of any item of information contained in a consumers file at a consumer reporting agency is disputed by the consumer and the consumer notifies the agency directly, or indirectly through a reseller, of such dispute, the agency shall, free of charge, conduct a reasonable reinvestigation to determine whether the disputed information is inaccurate and record the current status of the disputed information, or delete the item from the file in accordance with paragraph ( 5 ), before the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date on which the agency receives the notice of the dispute from the consumer or reseller. Remove XXXX due to, violation of Electronic Transfer Act of XXXX, violation of Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and inaccuracy of information on my credit report. XXXX is reporting the account as closed while XXXX and EQUIFAX are reporting the account as open. According to 15 USC 1681 section 604 a section 2 states that " In general Subject to subsection ( c ), any consumer reporting agency may furnish a consumer report under the following circumstances and no other : in accordance with the written instructions of the consumer to whom it relates. 15 USC 1681C ( a ) ( 5 ) states '' Except as authorized under subsection ( b ), no consumer reporting agency may make any consumer report containing any of the following items of information Any other adverse item of information, other than records of convictions of crimes which antedates the report by than seven years. '' The financial institution and the Consumer reporting agencies XXXX, XXXX, and EQUIFAX do not have my consent to furnish Private Transactions of history of any information and they surely do not have my written consent. Any and all consent to XXXX, XXXX, and EQUIFAX whether it be verbal, non-verbal, written, implied or otherwise is revoked. 15 USC 6809 ( 4 ) ( a ) Non Public Personal information- A ) The term nonpublic personal information means personally identifiable financial information ( i ) provided by a consumer to a financial institution ; ( ii ) resulting from any transaction with the consumer or any service performed for the consumer; or ( iii ) otherwise obtained by the financial institution. ( B ) Such term does not include publicly available information, as such term is defined by the regulations prescribed under section 6804 of USC title 15. ) 15 U.S. Code 1681s2 ( A ) ( 1 ) A states " 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. 15 U.S. Code 1681e states '' Every consumer reporting agency shall maintain reasonable procedures designed to avoid violations of section 1681c of this title and to limit the furnishing of consumer reports to the purposes listed under section 1681b of this title. XXXX, XXXX, and EQUIFAX are not maintaining reasonable procedures. Also 12 CFR 1016.7 states that " A consumer may exercise the right to opt out at any time. '' I am opting out any and all authorization. The consumer may have given you written and unwritten verbal and non verbal per 15 USC 6802. I will be forced to report you to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with a civil money penalty { {$1000.00} } per violations, I wish for your company not to be in dishonor.

Company response to consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief