Consumer complaint received 2024-02-22 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Problem with a company's investigation into an existing problem — Their investigation did not fix an error on your report
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: TX

Complaint narrative:
Equifax and XXXX XXXX XXXX  are reporting inaccurate information on my consumer report. There are several late payments listed on the account. 

XXXX - XXXX XX/XX/XXXX XX/XX/XXXX XX/XX/XXXX XX/XX/XXXX XX/XX/XXXX It is impossible for me to be late on this account the promissory note funds this account and the equitable interest that the security makes from trading I am due compensation. XXXX  XXXX XXXX is selling this fraudulent information to Equifax for them to report on my consumer report even though they know it is fraud. This is causing me damages. 

XXXX relief The remedy resulting from a claim of estoppel. XXXX relief is distinguished from remedies for legal actions in that, instead of seeking merely monetary damages, the plaintiff is seeking that the court compels the defendant to perform a certain act or refrain from a certain act. Common types of equitable relief are injunctions, specific performance, or vacatur. 


( a ) Except as provided in subsections ( c ) and ( d ), " negotiable instrument '' means an unconditional promise or order to pay a fixed amount of money, with or without interest or other charges described in the promise or order, if it : ( 1 ) is payable to bearer or to order at the time it is issued or first comes into possession of a holder ; ( 2 ) is payable on demand or at a definite time; and ( 3 ) does not state any other undertaking or instruction by the person promising or ordering payment to do any act in addition to the payment of money, but the promise or order may contain ( i ) an undertaking or power to give, maintain, or protect collateral to secure payment, ( ii ) an authorization or power to the holder to confess judgment or realize on or dispose of collateral, or ( iii ) a waiver of the benefit of any law intended for the advantage or protection of an obligor. 

( b ) " Instrument '' means a negotiable instrument.

( c ) An order that meets all of the requirements of subsection ( a ), except paragraph ( 1 ), and otherwise falls within the definition of " check '' in subsection ( f ) is a negotiable instrument and a check.

( d ) A promise or order other than a check is not an instrument if, at the time it is issued or first comes into possession of a holder, it contains a conspicuous statement, however expressed, to the effect that the promise or order is not negotiable or is not an instrument governed by this Article.

( e ) An instrument is a " note '' if it is a promise and is a " draft '' if it is an order. If an instrument falls within the definition of both " note '' and " draft, '' a person entitled to enforce the instrument may treat it as either.

( f ) " Check '' means ( i ) a draft, other than a documentary draft, payable on demand and drawn on a bank or ( ii ) a cashier 's check or teller 's check. An instrument may be a check even though it is described on its face by another term, such as " money order. '' ( g ) " Cashier 's check '' means a draft with respect to which the drawer and drawee are the same bank or branches of the same bank.

( h ) " Teller 's check '' means a draft drawn by a bank ( i ) on another bank, or ( ii ) payable at or through a bank. 

( i ) " Traveler 's check '' means an instrument that ( i ) is payable on demand, ( ii ) is drawn on or payable at or through a bank, ( iii ) is designated by the term " traveler 's check '' or by a substantially similar term, and ( iv ) requires, as a condition to payment, a countersignature by a person whose specimen signature appears on the instrument. 

( j ) " Certificate of deposit '' means an instrument containing an acknowledgment by a bank that a sum of money has been received by the bank and a promise by the bank to repay the sum of money. A certificate of deposit is a note of the bank.

Company response to consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief