Consumer complaint received 2022-06-20
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report — Information belongs to someone else
Company: EQUIFAX, INC. (TX)

This notice is to inform you that you unlawfully reported fraudulent inquiries that arose from IDENTITY THEFT that you did not verify as required by law on my consumer report. 
15 USC 1681b ( c ) Furnishing reports in connection with credit or insurance transactions that are not initiated by consumer ( 3 ) Information regarding inquiries ; Except as provided in section 1681g ( a ) ( 5 ) of this title, a consumer reporting agency shall not furnish to any person a record of inquiries in connection with a credit or insurance transaction that is not initiated by a consumer. The Following Inquires are a result of Identity theft and was not initiated by me, I demand that they are DELETED immediately : XXXX XX/XX/XXXXXX/XX/XXXX XX/XX/2022 XXXX XXXX XX/XX/2022XX/XX/XXXX XX/XX/2022 XXXX XXXX XX/XX/2022 My identity has been stolen you are hereby put on notice. Aggravated Identity Theft pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1028A. ( 1 ) IN GENERAL. Whoever, during and in relation to any felony violation enumerated in subsection ( c ), knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person shall, in addition to the punishment provided for such felony, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 2 years. An identification of me has been used with out my permission to open several accounts that have damaged my reputation and damaged my mode of living because you furnished a consumer report without my written permission as stated by Federal Law 15 USC 1681b Permissible purpose of consumer reports IN GENERAL Subject to subsection ( c ) any consumer reporting agency may furnish a consumer report under the following circumstances and no other : ( 2 ) In accordance with the written instructions of the consumer to whom it relates. 
Pursuant 15 U.S. Code 1681c2 - Block of information resulting from identity theft Except as otherwise provided in this section, a consumer reporting agency shall block the reporting of any information in the file of a consumer that the consumer identifies as information that resulted from an alleged identity theft, not later than 4 business days after the date of receipt by such agency of ( 1 ) appropriate proof of the identity of the consumer ; ( 2 ) a copy of an identity theft report ; ( 3 ) the identification of such information by the consumer; and ( 4 ) a statement by the consumer that the information is not information relating to any transaction by the consumer. I demand all the above Fraudulent accounts & Inquiries DELETED immediately. I Demand an updated copy of my Consumer file reflecting these changes ( 15 USC 1681 c-1 2 Access to free reports ) ( 2 ) Access to free reports In any case in which a consumer reporting agency includes a fraud alert in the file of a consumer pursuant to this subsection, the consumer reporting agency shall ( A ) disclose to the consumer that the consumer may request a free copy of the file of the consumer pursuant to section 1681j ( d ) of this title ; and Thank you, XXXX XXXX