Consumer complaint received 2024-03-29 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: IL

Complaint narrative:
Equifax and XXXX continue to allege this debt is verified as accurate but that is not true buying a contract does not mean I have an obligation to pay said debt. I made no claim that I would repay XXXX because they purchased the contract furthermore the contract is the security which is a financial asset and that asset belongs to me. I have not given XXXX permission to have possession of my security or attempt to force me to pay. I have repeatedly asked both companies to provide evidence that proves I am obligated to said company not another company by federal law that does not give you rights. 

( a ) An instrument is transferred when it is delivered by a person other than its issuer for the purpose of giving to the person receiving delivery the right to enforce the instrument. 

( b ) Transfer of an instrument, whether or not the transfer is a negotiation, vests in the transferee any right of the transferor to enforce the instrument, including any right as a holder in due course, but the transferee can not acquire rights of a holder in due course by a transfer, directly or indirectly, from a holder in due course if the transferee engaged in fraud or illegality affecting the instrument. 

( c ) Unless otherwise agreed, if an instrument is transferred for value and the transferee does not become a holder because of lack of indorsement by the transferor, the transferee has a specifically enforceable right to the unqualified indorsement of the transferor, but negotiation of the instrument does not occur until the indorsement is made. 

( d ) If a transferor purports to transfer less than the entire instrument, negotiation of the instrument does not occur. The transferee obtains no rights under this Article and has only the rights of a partial assignee.

Whoever knowingly executes, or attempts to execute, a scheme or artifice ( 1 ) to defraud any person in connection with any commodity for future delivery, or any option on a commodity for future delivery, or any security of an issuer with a class of securities registered under section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ( 15 U.S.C. 78l ) or that is required to file reports under section 15 ( d ) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ( 15 U.S.C. 78o ( d ) ) ; or ( 2 ) to obtain, by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, any money or property in connection with the purchase or sale of any commodity for future delivery, or any option on a commodity for future delivery, or any security of an issuer with a class of securities registered under section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ( 15 U.S.C. 78l ) or that is required to file reports under section 15 ( d ) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ( 15 U.S.C. 78o ( d ) ) ; shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than 25 years, or both.

Company response to consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief