Consumer complaint received 2024-09-06 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: MA

Complaint narrative:
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 4 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  - XXXX Your agency is in violation! 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 reporting agency can not furnish an account without my written instructions 15 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. Delete this at once! 

XXXX XXXX - XXXX Your agency is in violation! 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 reporting agency can not furnish an account without my written instructions 15 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. Delete this at once! 

I have sent many prior requests to your company to reinvestigate several inquiries that I believe to be incorrect on my credit report. Aren't you required to complete these investigations within 30 days of receipt? I have heard of companies pulling people 's credit without permissible purpose and I have yet to see verification of those purposes provided by your company. I will once again list the inquiries in need of investigation : XXXX - XXXX The law requires that I have proof of a permissible purpose for any information within my report. Therefore, I'm requesting that you verify permissible purpose was provided for this inquiry that you are reporting. Otherwise, DELETE! 

XXXX XXXX XXXX - XXXX The law requires that I have proof of a permissible purpose for any information within my report. Therefore, I'm requesting that you verify permissible purpose was provided for this inquiry that you are reporting. Otherwise, DELETE! 

XXXX  - XXXX The law requires that I have proof of a permissible purpose for any information within my report. Therefore, I'm requesting that you verify permissible purpose was provided for this inquiry that you are reporting. Otherwise, DELETE! 

XXXX XXXX  - XXXX The law requires that I have proof of a permissible purpose for any information within my report. Therefore, I'm requesting that you verify permissible purpose was provided for this inquiry that you are reporting. Otherwise, DELETE! 

XXXX  XXXX  - XXXX The law requires that I have proof of a permissible purpose for any information within my report. Therefore, I'm requesting that you verify permissible purpose was provided for this inquiry that you are reporting. Otherwise, DELETE! 

XXXX XXXX  - XXXX The law requires that I have proof of a permissible purpose for any information within my report. Therefore, I'm requesting that you verify permissible purpose was provided for this inquiry that you are reporting. Otherwise, DELETE! 

XXXX XXXX XXXX - XXXX The law requires that I have proof of a permissible purpose for any information within my report. Therefore, I'm requesting that you verify permissible purpose was provided for this inquiry that you are reporting. Otherwise, DELETE!

Company response to consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief