Consumer complaint received 2024-10-01
Product: Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Report provided to employer without your written authorization
Company: EQUIFAX, INC. (IL)

To whom it may concern, As a consumer, I request to know all the steps your agency took to ensure these items were 100 % accurate under 15 U.S.C. 1681i ( 7 ) Method of verification- Description of reinvestigation procedure. A consumer reporting agency shall provide to a consumer a description referred to in paragraph 15 USC ( 6 ) ( B ) ( iii ) - a notice that, if requested by the consumer, a description of the procedure used to determine the accuracy and completeness of the information shall be provided to the consumer by the agency, including the business name and address of any furnisher of information contacted in connection with such information and the telephone number of such furnisher, if reasonably available ; by not later than 15 days after receiving a request from the consumer for that description. I contacted your company to inform you that I am a data breach/identity theft victim. I also contacted the Federal Trade Commission and filed an attached FTC Report. I demanded that you please block and remove all information from my credit report and send me an updated copy of the credit report. However, the following items are still on my credit report. I need your serious work on this. Once again, Under 15 USC 1681c-2 c ( a ) the credit reporting agency must block and remove any alleged pieces of information the consumer considers identity theft within XXXX business days of receiving a complaint consisting of the information below. In addition, Please send the following information used to validate the validity of the invalidated items below : XXXX - XXXX I do not know this account or company and why is this reported on a single bureau only? Please remove this right away. 

Unknown - XXXX According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act ( FCRA ) Sections 611 ( a ) ( 1 ) ( A ) and 623 ( a ) ( 2 ), I am disputing the inclusion of an unknown collection account on my credit report. Also, my personal information was impacted by the Equifax data breach, raising concerns about the accuracy and security of my credit report. I demand the immediate deletion of this unknown collection account from my credit report. 

XXXX XXXX XXXX - XXXX According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act ( FCRA ) Sections 611 ( a ) ( 1 ) ( A ) and 623 ( a ) ( 2 ), I am disputing the inclusion of an unknown collection account on my credit report. Also, my personal information was impacted by the Equifax data breach, raising concerns about the accuracy and security of my credit report. I demand the immediate deletion of this unknown collection account from my credit report. 

Unknown - XXXX According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act ( FCRA ) Sections 611 ( a ) ( 1 ) ( A ) and 623 ( a ) ( 2 ), I am disputing the inclusion of an unknown collection account on my credit report. Also, my personal information was impacted by the Equifax data breach, raising concerns about the accuracy and security of my credit report. I demand the immediate deletion of this unknown collection account from my credit report. 

XXXX XXXX - XXXX According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act ( FCRA ) Sections 611 ( a ) ( 1 ) ( A ) and 623 ( a ) ( 2 ), I am disputing the inclusion of an unknown collection account on my credit report. Also, my personal information was impacted by the Equifax data breach, raising concerns about the accuracy and security of my credit report. I demand the immediate deletion of this unknown collection account from my credit report. 

XXXX - XXXX According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act ( FCRA ) Sections 611 ( a ) ( 1 ) ( A ) and 623 ( a ) ( 2 ), I am disputing the inclusion of an unknown collection account on my credit report. Also, my personal information was impacted by the Equifax data breach, raising concerns about the accuracy and security of my credit report. I demand the immediate deletion of this unknown collection account from my credit report. 

XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act ( FCRA ) Sections 611 ( a ) ( 1 ) ( A ) and 623 ( a ) ( 2 ), I am disputing the inclusion of an unknown collection account on my credit report. Also, my personal information was impacted by the Equifax data breach, raising concerns about the accuracy and security of my credit report. I demand the immediate deletion of this unknown collection account from my credit report. 

XXXX XXXX - XXXX According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act ( FCRA ) Sections 611 ( a ) ( 1 ) ( A ) and 623 ( a ) ( 2 ), I am disputing the inclusion of an unknown collection account on my credit report. Also, my personal information was impacted by the Equifax data breach, raising concerns about the accuracy and security of my credit report. I demand the immediate deletion of this unknown collection account from my credit report.