Consumer complaint received 2024-03-08 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Reporting company used your report improperly
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: TX

Complaint narrative:
EQUIFAX is obligated by the FCRA to report accurate accounting. Equifax, Per the FCRA as a protected consumer I opted out of all authorization used to a third party. I the consumer may have given written, unwritten, verbal, and non-verbal per 15 USC 6801-6805 the Privacy Act of 1974. Per 15 USC 1681 Effective immediately and indefinitely. All the inaccuracies of my personal information must be cleared off my report. All versions of names except my only Name. All other versions are in violation. There is only one ( 1 ) correct address that should be in my Credit Report. ALL OTHER locations or addresses are UNMAILABLE and MUST BE REMOVED. EQUIFAX and other companies have HARD AND MULTIPLE SOFT INQUIRIES that are NOT AUTHORIZED : Per the FCPA as a protected consumer I have opted out of all authorization. I the consumer may have given written, unwritten, verbal, and non-verbal per 15 USC 6802. Those hits on my credit are not authorized and must be removed.15 USC 1681 a ( d ) ( 2 ) ( A ) ( i ) clearly states that transactions between the consumer and the Person/Corporation making the report is NOT included on the consumer reports. Yet EQUIFAX , INC. is reporting this information. The reporting of excluded information pursuant to 15 USC 1681 a ( d ) ( 2 ) ( A ) ( i ) on a consumer report is a clear violation of Metro2 compliance. Provide me with the Metro2 compliance disclosure on reporting transactions to a consumer reporting agency. I need the transactions reporting as late, collection/charge-off status and any other derogatory information deleted from my consumer reports effective immediately. My XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX accounts is a violation of the family and educational Privacy Act of 1974. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act ( FERPA ) is a federal law enacted in 1974 that protects the privacy of student education records. FERPA applies to any public or private elementary, secondary, or post-secondary school. 20 USC 1232g ( b ) Account mark account PAID AS AGREED. Before you think to reply that this account has been " validated ', let 's be clear that I am not asking you to validate or verify anything. So please do not respond by telling me that as a tactic to waste my valuable time. Some of the negative accounts have been placed in Collection/Charge-Off Status WITHOUT mailing me a copy of IRS form 1099-C Cancellation of Debt. EQUIFAX , INC. and the creditors reporting collections/Charge-Offs, late payments/other derogatory information in my consumer reports are in violation of 26 USC 6050P Returns Relating to the Cancellation of Indebtedness By Certain Entities.15 USC 1681 section 604 a section 2 states that " In general Subject to subsection ( c ), any consumer reporting agency may furnish a consumer report under the following circumstances and no other : in accordance with the written instructions of the consumer to whom it relates. These companies Never informed me of my right to exercise my nondisclosure option. Not only that 15 USC 1681C ( a ) ( 5 ) states '' Except as authorized under subsection ( b ), but no consumer reporting agency may also make any consumer report containing any of the following items of information Any other adverse item of information, other than records of convictions of crimes which antedates the report by more than seven years. '' This account is an adverse item they are reporting again without my permission, which is against the law. 15 U.S. Code 1681s-2 ( A ) ( 1 ) A states " A person shall not furnish any information relating to a consumer to any consumer reporting agency if the person knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the information is inaccurate. 15 U.S. Code 1681e states '' Every consumer reporting agency shall maintain reasonable procedures designed to avoid violations of section 1681c of this title and to limit the furnishing of consumer reports to the purposes listed under section 1681b of this title. Equifax are not maintaining reasonable procedures. Also 12 CFR 1016.7 states that " A consumer may exercise the right to opt out at any time 15 U.S. Code 1681n - Civil liability for willful noncompliance b ) Civil liability for knowing noncompliance Any person who obtains a consumer report from a consumer reporting agency under false pretenses or knowingly without a permissible purpose shall be liable to the consumer reporting agency for actual damages sustained by the consumer reporting agency or { {$1000.00} }, whichever is greater. SAID company is liable under the SEC to follow certain rules. EQUIFAX Commission file number XXXX. XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX, New York XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX  XXXX New York XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX New York XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX. XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX, Georgia XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, North Carolina XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, PENNSYLVANIA XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX MD XXXX XXXX, OHIO XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX  XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, MASSACHUSETTS XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, NY XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX, NY XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX, GEORGIA XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX, MINNESOTA XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX NEW YORK XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX & XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX NEW YORK XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, NEW YORK XXXX. For EQUIFAX and ALL ENTITIES involved, I will be forced to officially file IRS form 3949A : Information Referral and will be filing form 211 treasury omb forms to audit consumers account. EQUIFAX is securitizing consumers data yet refuse to provide consumer a copy of their CONSUMER FILE NOT CONSUMER REPORT

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation