Consumer complaint received 2024-12-24 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report — Information belongs to someone else
Company: LEXISNEXIS
State: NY

Complaint narrative:
Name : XXXX XXXX Address Line : XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX  NY XXXX Document Date : XX/XX/XXXX LEXISNEXIS XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, GA XXXX Subject : REQUEST LETTER TO REMOVE INACCURATE INFORMATION To Whom It May Concern, Please accept this formal letter as my first request to investigate and remove derogatory accounts/items from my consumer report. Going over my report, I have found it has errors. It has come to my attention that you are reporting what I believe to be inaccurate data, which I dispute, and this letter is an appeal for your assistance. As a consumer reporting agency 15 U.S.C. $ 1681a ( f ), you are governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act ( 'FCRA '' ). 15 U.S.C. 1681, et seq., which protects consumers from inaccurate, outdated, or invalidated information reporting of their consumer file. The FCRA states that it's the consumer reporting agency 's responsibility to ensure that all information contained within consumer files is accurate and free from errors. Your company is regularly engaged in the business of assembling, evaluating, and disbursing information concerning consumers for the purpose of furnishing consumer reports, as defined in 15 U.S.C. {$1600.00} ( d ), to third parties.

According to federal law, you are required to comply with the requirements imposed under the FCRA, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., including but not limited to : 1 ) follow reasonable procedures to assure maximum possible accuracy of the information in the consumer report, as required by 15 U.S.C. 1681e ( b ). This section imposes a high and often disregarded standard on consumer reporting agencies. See, e.g., XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX ( XXXX. XXXX XXXX. XXXX, XXXX ) ( breaking down the requirements of 1681e ( b ), and explaining that " assure ' means 'to make sure or certain : put beyond all doubt, '' ' [ maximum ' means the 'greatest in quantity or highest degree attainable [, ] ' and 'possible ' means something falling within the bounds of what may be done, occur or be conceived. '' ( quoting XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX ( XXXX ) ) ; XXXX ) comply with the investigation requirements, as required by 15 U.S.C. 1681i ; 3 ) should not provide consumer files to companies without determining that these companies had a permissible purpose to obtain consumer files pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 1681b ; 4 ) provide consumer file pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 1681g ; 5 ) et seq.

Accordingly, I request your company to provide verifiable documentary proof ( e.g., original consumer contract or similar proof bearing my wet ink signature on it ) you have on file of accounts/items listed below. Under the FCRA, if you do not provide documented and verifiable proof, you must remove all unverified, invalid, derogatory information from my consumer report.

For your convenience, I am sending you a list of the items you need to verify them. These listed accounts are neither my debts nor my authorized inquiries. Please correct this by the removal of these items from my consumer report. See. Exhibit A.

Upon completion of your investigation, please send a detailed description of the procedures used to determine the accuracy of the accounts/items 1 am disputing, as well as the name and contact information of the agent conducting the said investigation in case further communication is necessary.

I know that your company will need some sort of verification to prove my identity. My information is clearly shown below : FULL NAME : XXXX XXXX SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER : XXXX DATE OF BIRTH : XX/XX/XXXX ADDRESS : XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX PHONE NUMBER : ( XXXX ) XXXX XXXX EMAIL : XXXX XXXX

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation