Consumer complaint received 2024-05-22 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: GA

Complaint narrative:
I seen my credit report today and seen that the late payments on there shouldnt be on my consumer report being as tho 15 usc 1666b tells me that my car loan I should have had letters sent before I ever received a late payment also states they arent allowed to report my transactions which they do because they are explaining on my consumer report my payment history without my written consent. 

XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX account number XXXX for my car loan XXXX. 

( a ) Time to make payments A creditor may not treat a payment on a credit card account under an open end consumer credit plan as late for any purpose, unless the creditor has adopted reasonable procedures designed to ensure that each periodic statement including the information required by section 1637 ( b ) of this title is mailed or delivered to the consumer not later than 21 days before the payment due date.

( b ) Grace period If an open end consumer credit plan provides a time period within which an obligor may repay any portion of the credit extended without incurring an additional finance charge, such additional finance charge may not be imposed with respect to such portion of the credit extended for the billing cycle of which such period is a part, unless a statement which includes the amount upon which the finance charge for the period is based was mailed or delivered to the consumer not later than 21 days before the date specified in the statement by which payment must be made in order to avoid imposition of that finance charge.

( a ) Duty of furnishers of information to provide accurate information ( 1 ) Prohibition ( A ) Reporting information with actual knowledge of errors A person shall not furnish any information relating to a consumer to any consumer reporting agency if the person knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the information is inaccurate.

( B ) Reporting information after notice and confirmation of errors A person shall not furnish information relating to a consumer to any consumer reporting agency if ( i ) the person has been notified by the consumer, at the address specified by theperson for such notices, that specific information is inaccurate; and ( ii ) the information is, in fact, inaccurate.

15 USC 1681 thru 1692. These laws are set in place to protect my federal protected consumer rights.the list of agencies below have violated me and I would like for the cfpb to follow the rules and guidelines set in place by congress to hold these persons accountable. As follows these are the accounts of the person I wish to sue under 15 usc 1681 thru usc 1692 as it state I am to be reimbursed for any and all violations to my consumer report are not mines I do not owe these persons nor do I know of these persons In accordance with the fair credit reporting act. The list of accounts below has violated my federally protected consumer rights to privacy and confidentiality under 15 U.S.C 1681.

15 U.S.C 1681 section 602 A. States I have the right to privacy.

15 U.S.C 1681 section 604 A. Section 2 : it also states a consumer agency can not furnish an account without my written instructions.

U.S.C 1681c ( a ) ( 5 ) section states : no consumer reporting agency may make any consumer report containing any of the following items of information any other adverse item of information, other than records of convictions of crimes which antedates the report by more than seven years.

15 U.S.C 1681s-2 ( a ) ( 1 ) a person shall not furnish any information relating to a consumer to any consumer reporting agency if the person knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the information is inaccurate. These laws protect me from being abused by the consumer reporting company which have assumed this responsibility of furnishing my consumer report and and it has to be 100 percent accurate.

15 U.S.C 1681 ( a ) ( 3 ) consumer reporting agencies have assumed a vital role in assembling and evaluating consumer credit and other information on consumers This is the laws set in place by Congress to protect my rights.

15 U.S.C 1681 ( n ) ( b ) Civil liability for knowing non compliance. Any Person who obtains a consumer report from a consumer reporting agency under false pretenses or knowingly without a permissible purpose shall be liable to a consumer reporting agency for actual damages sustained by the consumer reporting agency or {$1000.00} whichever is greater.

The law states also 1692 I have the right to refuse payment on things that shouldnt be on my consumer report but being as they assumed a vital role and congress has set certain laws in place Due to late payments.

( a ) Abusive practices There is abundant evidence of the use of abusive, deceptive, and unfair debt collection practices by many debt collectors. Abusive debt collection practices contribute to the number of personal bankruptcies, to marital instability, to the loss of jobs, and to invasions of individual privacy.

( b ) Inadequacy of laws Existing laws and procedures for redressing these injuries are inadequate to protect consumers.

( c ) Available non-abusive collection methods Means other than misrepresentation or other abusive debt collection practices are available for the effective collection of debts.

( d ) Interstate commerce Abusive debt collection practices are carried on to a substantial extent in interstate commerce and through means and instrumentalities of such commerce. Even where abusive debt collection practices are purely intrastate in character, they nevertheless directly affect interstate commerce.

( e ) Purposes It is the purpose of this subchapter to eliminate abusive debt collection practices by debt collectors, to insure that those debt collectors who refrain from using abusive debt collection practices are not competitively disadvantaged, and to promote consistent State action to protect consumers against debt collection abuses.

Company response to consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief