Consumer complaint received 2024-04-10 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: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: CA

Complaint narrative:
The company, XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, is attempting to collect a debt from me that I do not owe. I had no involvement with the transaction according to 15 USC 3002 I am a natural person which means my name in all caps is not me. My name is XXXX XXXX. 15 USC 1692 ( a ) ( 1 ) the term " Bureau* means the bureau of consumer financial protection XXXX XXXX, equifax, XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX  are assumed to be credit bureaus and there is only XXXX bureau and that is the consumer financial protection bureau. On XX/XX/year>, congress enacted HJR-192 to suspend the gold standard and to abrogate the gold clause. This resolution declared that " Whereas the holding or dealing in gold affect the public interest, and are therefore subject to proper regulation and restriction ; and whereas the existing emergency has disclosed that provisions of obligations which purport to give the obligee a right to require payment in gold or a particular kind of coin or currency... Are inconsistent with the declared policy of congress... In the payment of debts. This resolution declared that any obligation requiring " Payment in gold or a particular kind of coin or currency, or in an amount in money policy ; and ... Every obligation heretofore or hereafter incurred, shall be discharged upon payment, dollar for dollar, in any coin or currency which at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts. 15 USC 1681 ( 3 ) ( e ) ( elthe term 'investigative consumer report means a consumer report or portion thereof in which information on a consumer 's character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living is obtained through personal interviews with neighbors, friends, or associates of the consumer reported on or with others with whom he is acquainted or who may have knowledge concerning any such items of information. Payment is legal tender for public and private debts. 15 USC 1681 c2a This account and debt does not belong to me. I am a victim of identity theft and have not given permission to furnish this information on my personal consumer report. 15 USC 1681 ( 3 ) ( e ) ( elthe term 'investigative consumer report means a consumer report or portion thereof in which information on a consumer 's character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living is obtained through personal interviews with neighbors, friends, or associates of the consumer reported on or with others with whom he is acquainted or who may have knowledge concerning any such items of information. Payment is legal tender for public and private debts. 15 USC 1681 c2a According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act 15 USC 1681 section 602 a states " There is a need to insure that consumer reporting agencies exercise their grave responsibilities with fairness, impartiality, and a respect for the consumers right to privacy. '' Equifax, XXXX, and XXXX are consumer reporting agencies and I am the Consumer. I have the right to make sure my private information isn't shared which is backed by 15 USC 6801 which states, " It is the policy of the Congress that each financial institution has an affirmative and continuing obligation to respect the privacy of its customers and to protect the security and confidentiality of those customers nonpublic personal information. XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX is a financial institution by definition under that title. 15 USC 1681 section 604 a section 2 states that " In general Subject to subsection ( c ), any consumer reporting agency may furnish a consumer report under the following circumstances and no other : in accordance with the written instructions of the consumer to whom it relates. '' XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX, the financial institutions and the Consumer reporting agencies Equifax, XXXX, and XXXX do not have my consent to furnish this information and they surely do not have my written consent. Any and all consent to XXXX, Equifax, XXXX, and XXXX XXXX XXXX IN whether it be verbal, non-verbal, written, implied or otherwise is revoked. 15 USC 6802 ( b ) ( c ) states that " A financial institution may not disclose nonpublic personal information to a nonaffiliated third party unless the consumer is given an explanation of how the consumer can exercise that nondisclosure option. '' XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX never informed me of my right to exercise my nondisclosure option. Not only that but it states in 15 USC 1681C ( a ) ( 5 ) " Except as authorized under subsection ( b ), 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. '' This account is an adverse item they are reporting again without my permission which is against the law. 15 U.S. Code 1681s2 ( A ) ( 1 ) A states " 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. 15 U.S. Code 1681e states '' Every consumer reporting agency shall maintain reasonable procedures designed to avoid violations of section 1681c of this title and to limit the furnishing of consumer reports to the purposes listed under section 1681b of this title. Equifax, XXXX, and XXXX are not maintaining reasonable procedures. Also 12 CFR 1016.7 states that " A consumer may exercise the right to opt out at any time. '' I am opting out of your reporting services.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation