Consumer complaint received 2023-07-01
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: TRUIST FINANCIAL CORPORATION (TX)

NOTICE AND DEMAND FOR SETTLEMENT OF UNAUTHORIZED INQUIRY ON CONSUMER REPORT NOTICE TO AGENT IS NOTICE TO PRINCIPAL AND NOTICE TO PRINCIPAL IS NOTICE TO AGENT To : Whom It May Concern : This notice is to inform you that you are unlawfully reporting an unauthorized inquiry on my consumer report. I have not given you permission to access my credit profile and you have no permissible purpose by law to contact third parties with my private or personal information. By obtaining my consumer report on XX/XX/XXXX, knowingly without any permissible purpose you are in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act ( FCRA ) codified at 15 U.S.C 1681b ( a ) 3 ( f ) ( i ). Chester v. Purvis, 260 F. Supp 2d 711 ( S.D. Ind. 2003 ) I have not initiated any transaction with REGIONAL ACCEPTANCE. Furthermore, I do not have an account as defined under 15 U.S.C. 1693a ( 2 ) with REGIONAL ACCEPTANCE for review or collection. Your offenses amount to Aggravated Identity Theft pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1028A. You have knowingly transferred, possessed, or used, without lawful authority, a means of identification of me, which is a felony punishable with up to 2 years of imprisonment, in addition to civil liability. Pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 1681n ( a ), Any person who knowingly and willfully obtains information on a consumer from a consumer reporting agency under false pretenses shall be fined under Title 18, imprisoned for not more than 2 years, or both. You are in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act ( FCRA ), [ 15 U.S.C 1681b ( a ) 3 ( f ) ( i )., for unlawfully obtaining my XXXX consumer report on XX/XX/XXXX without my authorization or a permissible purpose under the 15 USC 1681b ( 2 ) Fair Credit Reporting Act ( FCRA } and its guidelines for permissible purpose. A person shall not use or obtain a consumer report for any purpose unless ; 1. The consumer report is obtained for a purpose for which the consumer report is authorized to be furnished under this section. 2. The purpose is certified in accordance with section 1681b ( f ). Chester v. Purvis, 260 F. Supp 2d 711 ( S.D. Ind. 2003 ). FCRA section 604 ( f ) provides that a person shall not use or obtain a consumer report for any purpose unless the consumer report is obtained for a purpose for which the consumer report is authorized to be furnished under [ FCRA section 604 ] and the purpose is certified in accordance with FCRA section 607 by a prospective user of the report through a general or specific certification. I am requesting the General or specific certification that was sent to the consumer reporting Agencies! This request is being made pursuant rule 1002. FCRA section 619 imposes criminal liability on any person who knowingly and willfully obtains information on a consumer from a consumer reporting agency under false pretenses. Consumers suffer harm when consumer reporting agencies provide consumer reports to persons who are not authorized to receive the information or when recipients of consumer reports obtain or use such reports for purposes other than permissible purposes. These harms include the invasion of consumers privacy, as well as reputational, emotional, physical, and economic harms. I have been denied new credit, I have been denied increases in lines of credit because of your willful violation of the FCRA, I am willing to settle your civil liability damages I have suffered as a result of your violation for {$1000.00} pursuant FCRA 616 ( a ) ( 1 ) ( B ) [ 15 U.S.C. 1681n ]. Should you fail or refuse to settle the matter by tendering payment in the amount of {$1000.00} within ten ( 30 ) calendar days of receipt of this notice and demand, I will seek actual damages which are greater than {$1000.00}.