Consumer complaint received 2025-01-16 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report — Personal information incorrect
Company: Experian Information Solutions Inc.
State: TX

Complaint narrative:
I am filing complaint with you in regard to unfair practices by The credit bureau Experian in there investigation into a dispute. On several occasions I disputed an account with XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX. 

Both accounts are reporting debts with inaccurate information XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX is reporting a debt with an address listed as XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX  XXXX and XXXX is reporting the wrong XXXX XXXX. 

I submitted documents that I received from both creditors that showed the incorrect information being reported and Experian still responded This information is verified to be accurate Experian has copies of ALL documents lease and contracts i Experian failed to provide me with rights per the FCRA Fair and accurate reporting and proper investigation. I am dsiputing and filing a complaint against experian on the basis of for unlawfully failing to properly investigate consumer disputes. The CFPB alleges that Experian does not take sufficient steps to intake, process, investigate, and notify consumers about consumer disputes, resulting in the inclusion of incorrect information on credit reports. Inaccurate or false information on consumer reports can threaten consumers access to credit, employment, and housing. 

The Fair Credit Reporting Act ( FCRA ) requires that consumer reporting agencies take steps to ensure consumer reports are accurate and to conduct investigations of information disputed by consumers. The FCRA provides people multiple ways to dispute inaccurate information on their consumer reports, including by contacting consumer reporting agencies directly. The FCRA also requires that consumer reporting agencies follow certain procedures before reinserting into consumer reports information that has previously been removed as the result of a dispute. 

The CFPB alleges that Experian has violated the FCRAs requirements for handling consumer disputes in numerous ways. Specifically, the CFPB alleges that Experian is harming consumers by : Conducting sham investigations that fail to properly address consumer disputes : When handling disputes, Experian uses faulty intake procedures and does not accurately convey all relevant information about disputes to the original furnisher. Experian routinely and uncritically accepts the original furnishers response to the disputed information, even when that response was improbable or illogical on its face, or when Experian has other information available that suggests the furnisher is unreliable. At the conclusion of the investigation, Experian sends consumers notices that fail to inform them of the investigation results, and instead provides information that is confusing, ambiguous, incorrect, or internally inconsistent. 
Improperly reinserting inaccurate information on consumer reports : Experian has failed to implement basic matching tools that prevent or greatly reduce the likelihood of reinsertion by a new furnisher of a previously deleted tradeline. Instead, Experian improperly reinserts inaccurate information into consumer reports because it fails to match newly reported information with records of previously deleted information. Consumers who have disputed the accuracy of an account and thought that their consumer report had been corrected, instead see the same inaccurate information reappear on their consumer report without explanation under the name of a new furnisher.

Company public response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation