Consumer complaint received 2024-09-18 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Report provided to employer without your written authorization
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: CA

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 XXXXXXXX XXXX  Account XXXX This is my FINAL NOTICE. I've told y'all over and over that my info got messed up in that Equifax data breach, and now my credit report 's got all kinds of fraudulent stuff I don't even recognize. UNPROVEN! Y'all can't just assume these undocumented claims are valid or report like that. Show me proof y'all are following the right compliance standards for this account. The FTC is on this. DELETE! 

I did not initiate any of these inquiries furthermore if you feel like did please send me copies of my written signature giving consent to this matter. The items below should all be removed from my consumer report under 15 US Code ( c ) ( 1 ) ( A ) ( B ) ( i ) ( 3 ). 

XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX If you can not provide this proof of authorization, REMOVE THIS INQUIRY FROM MY CREDIT REPORT IMMEDIATELY. This unauthorized inquiry is damaging my credit and making it hard for me to obtain new credit. 

XXXX If you can not provide this proof of authorization, REMOVE THIS INQUIRY FROM MY CREDIT REPORT IMMEDIATELY. This unauthorized inquiry is damaging my credit and making it hard for me to obtain new credit. 

XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX If you can not provide this proof of authorization, REMOVE THIS INQUIRY FROM MY CREDIT REPORT IMMEDIATELY. This unauthorized inquiry is damaging my credit and making it hard for me to obtain new credit. 

XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX If you can not provide this proof of authorization, REMOVE THIS INQUIRY FROM MY CREDIT REPORT IMMEDIATELY. This unauthorized inquiry is damaging my credit and making it hard for me to obtain new credit.

Company response to consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief