Consumer complaint received 2021-10-27
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: MS
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: Difficulty submitting a dispute or getting information about a dispute over the phone

Complaint:
Hello. This is a complaint against all 3 credit bureaus. For the month of XXXX, I received XXXX XXXX scores Equifax-XXXX, XXXX, XXXX. For XXXX, these scores have dropped to Equifax-XXXX, XXXX and XXXX. My mortgage scores went from Equifax XXXX, XXXX- XXXX and XXXX- XXXX. With my mortgage scores alone, you can see that at least 2 dropped by 72 points and the other near a 100 points. I checked to see the reason behind this and 1 payment was reported 30 days past due for 1 account which Im in the process of disputing as inaccurate. There are balance increases on some accounts but nothing that shouldve dropped my score this far below average in the manner that it was dropped. I have reached out to the credit bureaus complaining about the conflicting data that makes no sense to consumers. XXXX will specifically report whats helping my score as excellent payment history and right underneath will put the exact same thing as whats hurting my score. I worked very hard to get my scores up to nearly a 700 only to watch them drop in a 30 days time so drastically and while I understand it can drop heavily for a late payment, once that remark is removed and it will be as its incorrect, am I going to gain back to points I lost and most likely not. Payment history accounts for 35 % of your score and it seems the bureaus are more focused and still heavily penalize for details on the report that are well over 5 years old but are telling consumers they dont do this. They are specifically stating that you are not impacted as much for accounts that old. The credit bureaus need to be heavily looked into and evaluated on scoring habits and the reasons they use for why they score they way they do as it is seriously starting to look like a system that is meaning to purposely keep a certain class of people from obtaining mortgages etc. And I say this because I was paying to receive my mortgage scores every 3 months and just last month I paid more to receive them once a month instead as Im prepping for buying a house and oddly my scores dropped so heavily, you would think I filed a bankruptcy. Something is definitely not right and its not adding up. I would greatly appreciate someone investigating all 3 major credit bureaus and their habits. I have copies of my constant fluctuating scores. Even when Im hardly using my credit cards, Im dinged. I have even been dinged for paying balances down which I will never understand that one and when I spoke to the bureaus about it, their response was it will go down first and then come back up. So we as consumers lose points that we wouldve otherwise had because the score is not raised by as many points as they take away obviously. The credit bureaus need to be heavily looked into and evaluated and I hope this can happen. Thank you for your time.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation