Consumer complaint received 2022-09-09
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: PA
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:
Requesting a Method of Verification Letter Dear Sir/Maam : I recently received a response to a dispute ( see attached ) that I made under FCRA 611 ( a ) regarding an erroneous item on my credit report involving a transaction with. It saddened me to learn that you somehow verified the disputed item, electing to leave it on my report. I am absolutely certain that the item I disputed is incorrect and should be removed, so I am hereby exercising my rights under FCRA 611 ( a ) ( 7 ) to request a complete description of all methods used to investigate my aforementioned dispute. I am very interested to learn how your investigator ( s ) arrived at this erroneous conclusion. I would like to see a complete list of all documents and correspondence with. Please include all names and contact information of employees that you spoke to at as part of this investigation. All previous letters and documents that I sent to you previously are once again attached along with this correspondence in order to help you process this request. I am asking for this verification because my credit score is important to me, and I believe it is being unjustly degraded as a result of this unfortunate error. Therefore, I request that you please do not send me a template letter in response to this request. I am in the process of planning a legal case, so I need specific answers to the specific questions asked of you in this letter. I expect to receive a response within 15 days of receipt of this letter, or I will expect to see the item in question permanently expunged from my record. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. I very much look forward to getting this resolved as soon as possible. I've disputed these items several time over and continue to get ignored or passed along. This is becoming very frustrating that the Credit bureaus are just sending me verified general letters with no real investigation, and it is having a tremendous impact on my life I'm trying to resolve this matter with out taking any legal action but if this not resolved I'm left no other choice but pursue that route to get this rectified asap possible. I've repeatedly said this items are incorrect and shown the proof that they are but they some how come back verified and there is no way they are if my most recent credit report says verified and and updated and the still have the same inaccurate information in my file. Please tell me how the following items are accurate XXXX XXXX : Date of last activity is wrong XXXX XXXX XXXX : XXXX is wrong XXXX XXXX : XXXX is wrong XXXX : XXXX is wrong, The laws for Reinvestigation are as follows 15 usc 1681c section ( 5 ) TREATMENT OF INACCURATE OR UNVERIFIABLE INFORMATION ( A ) In general If, after any reinvestigation under paragraph ( 1 ) of any information disputed by a consumer, an item of the information is found to be inaccurate or incomplete or can not be verified, the consumer reporting agency shall ( i ) promptly delete that item of information from the file of the consumer, or modify that item of information, as appropriate, based on the results of the reinvestigation ; and ( ii ) promptly notify the furnisher of that information that the information has been modified or deleted from the file of the consumer 15 U.S. Code 1681i - Procedure in case of disputed accuracy ( a ) REINVESTIGATIONS OF DISPUTED INFORMATION ( 1 ) REINVESTIGATION REQUIRED ( A ) 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. 15 U.S. Code 1681s2 a ) DUTY OF FURNISHERS OF INFORMATION TO PROVIDE ACCURATE INFORMATION Duty of person after receiving notice of disputeAfter receiving a notice of dispute from a consumer pursuant to subparagraph ( D ), the person that provided the information in dispute to a consumer reporting agency shall ( i ) conduct an investigation with respect to the disputed information ; ( ii ) review all relevant information provided by the consumer with the notice ; ( iii ) complete such persons investigation of the dispute and report the results of the investigation to the consumer before the expiration of the period under section 1681i ( a ) ( 1 ) of this title within which a consumer reporting agency would be required to complete its action if the consumer had elected to dispute the information under that section ; and ( iv ) if the investigation finds that the information reported was inaccurate, promptly notify each consumer reporting agency to which the person furnished the inaccurate information of that determination and provide to the agency any correction to that information that is necessary to make the information provided by the person accurate. These are the laws which mines are continuously being violated I've attached XXXX and XXXX Credit Reports to see nothing has been done. I also am forwarding this information to an attorney. You have 15 days to produce this information

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation