Consumer complaint received 2024-07-03 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Credit inquiries on your report that you don't recognize
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 previously 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 : SAN DIEGO COUNTY CRED Account XXXX My data was affected by the Equifax data breach XXXX resulting in numerous fraudulent items appearing on my credit report that I do not recognize. As these claims remain unproven and undocumented, they can not be assumed valid nor compliantly reported. I request evidence of your adherence to applicable compliance standards for this particular account. Furthermore, I must insist on the immediate deletion of these unsubstantiated claims. This the matter is currently under investigation by the FTC The items below should all be removed from my consumer report under 15 US Code 1681 ( c ) ( 1 ) ( A ) ( B ) ( i ) ( 3 ). 

XXXX XXXX XXXX Unauthorized hard pull, where did you get this misleading information? This is unfair! The law requires that I have proof of a permissible purpose for any information within my report. Therefore, Im requesting that you verify permissible purpose was provided for this inquiry that you are reporting. Otherwise, DELETE! 

XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX Unauthorized hard pull, where did you get this misleading information? This is unfair! The law requires that I have proof of a permissible purpose for any information within my report. Therefore, Im requesting that you verify permissible purpose was provided for this inquiry that you are reporting. Otherwise, DELETE! 

XXXX Unauthorized hard pull, where did you get this misleading information? This is unfair! The law requires that I have proof of a permissible purpose for any information within my report. Therefore, XXXX requesting that you verify permissible purpose was provided for this inquiry that you are reporting. Otherwise, DELETE! 

XXXX OF XXXX CA Unauthorized hard pull, where did you get this misleading information? This is unfair! The law requires that I have proof of a permissible purpose for any information within my report. Therefore, Im requesting that you verify permissible purpose was provided for this inquiry that you are reporting. Otherwise, DELETE! 

XXXX XXXX XXXX Unauthorized hard pull, where did you get this misleading information? This is unfair! The law requires that I have proof of a permissible purpose for any information within my report. Therefore, Im requesting that you verify permissible purpose was provided for this inquiry that you are reporting. Otherwise, DELETE! 

XXXX  Unauthorized hard pull, where did you get this misleading information? This is unfair! The law requires that I have proof of a permissible purpose for any information within my report. Therefore, Im requesting that you verify permissible purpose was provided for this inquiry that you are reporting. Otherwise, DELETE! 

XXXX  Unauthorized hard pull, where did you get this misleading information? This is unfair! The law requires that I have proof of a permissible purpose for any information within my report. Therefore, Im requesting that you verify permissible purpose was provided for this inquiry that you are reporting. Otherwise, DELETE! 

XXXX  Unauthorized hard pull, where did you get this misleading information? This is unfair! The law requires that I have proof of a permissible purpose for any information within my report. Therefore, Im requesting that you verify permissible purpose was provided for this inquiry that you are reporting. Otherwise, DELETE!

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation