vivekkopthsd/cfpb-consumer-complaints huggingface dataset:
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report — Information belongs to someone else
Company: TRANSUNION INTERMEDIATE HOLDINGS, INC.
State: PA

Complaint narrative:
I did not authorize anyone to use my information or to be given to a third party. This is an unauthorized and fraudulent account which was opened without my consent as I never gave permission for this to be opened under my name. I did not agree to any membership, loan or credit card. My personal info had been used to process transactions and open an account under my name without my knowledge. I never gave authority to open such account. It is not authorized and I have never given permission for it to open and charged. I am a victim of fraud and theft. Please remove this account from my credit report, all of the inquiries, and block them from placing these unauthorized account on my credit. I have requested multiple times for verification of this account and send out disputes on the following dates : XX/XX/2020, XX/XX/2020, XX/XX/2020, XX/XX/2020, XX/XX/2020 but Ive had no responses. Ive sent out requests to the credit bureaus. This willful neglect has not only caused much financial hardship, but is a direct violation of my rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. I need help in this situation because I can not refinance many loans I have or obtain new lines of credit.

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
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report — Information belongs to someone else
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: PA

Complaint narrative:
I did not authorize anyone to use my information or to be given to a third party. This is an unauthorized and fraudulent account which was opened without my consent as I never gave permission for this to be opened under my name. I did not agree to any membership, loan or credit card. My personal info had been used to process transactions and open an account under my name without my knowledge. I never gave authority to open such account. It is not authorized and I have never given permission for it to open and charged. I am a victim of fraud and theft. Please remove this account from my credit report, all of the inquiries, and block them from placing these unauthorized account on my credit. I have requested multiple times for verification of this account and send out disputes on the following dates : XX/XX/2020, XX/XX/2020, XX/XX/2020, XX/XX/2020, XX/XX/2020 but Ive had no responses. Ive sent out requests to the credit bureaus. This willful neglect has not only caused much financial hardship, but is a direct violation of my rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. I need help in this situation because I can not refinance many loans I have or obtain new lines of credit.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report — Information belongs to someone else
Company: Experian Information Solutions Inc.
State: PA

Complaint narrative:
I did not authorize anyone to use my information or to be given to a third party. This is an unauthorized and fraudulent account which was opened without my consent as I never gave permission for this to be opened under my name. I did not agree to any membership, loan or credit card. My personal info had been used to process transactions and open an account under my name without my knowledge. I never gave authority to open such account. It is not authorized and I have never given permission for it to open and charged. I am a victim of fraud and theft. Please remove this account from my credit report, all of the inquiries, and block them from placing these unauthorized account on my credit. I have requested multiple times for verification of this account and send out disputes on the following dates : XX/XX/2020, XX/XX/2020, XX/XX/2020, XX/XX/2020, XX/XX/2020 but Ive had no responses. Ive sent out requests to the credit bureaus. This willful neglect has not only caused much financial hardship, but is a direct violation of my rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. I need help in this situation because I can not refinance many loans I have or obtain new lines of credit.

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
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report — Information belongs to someone else
Company: TRANSUNION INTERMEDIATE HOLDINGS, INC.
State: PA

Complaint narrative:
This account is not mine. They have been billing me and I continue to pay because I do not want to mess up my credit. I have called them numerous times to demand validation of the said account and get the account closed but they give me the runaround every time and have never received any validation. I stayed at the resort once but only paid for the time I was there. I did not purchase anything from them. I have disputed this with the credit bureau but had no resolutions. I realized XXXX took my information and fraudulently used it without my permission to process transactions and open an account without my knowledge. This is a scam & I demand this to be thoroughly investigated promptly. This inaccurate account is being reported in my credit records and is hurting my financial stability. I have requested multiple times for verification of this account but the creditor has refused to provide any information. Ive sent out demands to have this account verified on the following dates : XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX but Ive had no responses. Ive sent out requests to XXXX XXXXnd TransUnion and to the original creditor. This willful neglect has not only caused much financial hardship, but is a direct violation of my rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. I need help in this situation because I can not refinance many loans I have or obtain new lines of credit.

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
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Incorrect information on your report — Information belongs to someone else
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: PA

Complaint narrative:
This account is not mine. They have been billing me and I continue to pay because I do not want to mess up my credit. I have called them numerous times to demand validation of the said account and get the account closed but they give me the runaround every time and have never received any validation. I stayed at the resort once but only paid for the time I was there. I did not purchase anything from them. I have disputed this with the credit bureau but had no resolutions. I realized XXXX took my information and fraudulently used it without my permission to process transactions and open an account without my knowledge. This is a scam & I demand this to be thoroughly investigated promptly. This inaccurate account is being reported in my credit records and is hurting my financial stability. I have requested multiple times for verification of this account but the creditor has refused to provide any information. Ive sent out demands to have this account verified on the following dates : XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX, XX/XX/XXXX but Ive had no responses. Ive sent out requests to Equifax and XXXX  and to the original creditor. This willful neglect has not only caused much financial hardship, but is a direct violation of my rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. I need help in this situation because I can not refinance many loans I have or obtain new lines of credit.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Debt collection — Credit card debt
Issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed — Debt was result of identity theft
Company: BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
State: GA

Complaint narrative:
Hello, I've tried many times explaining to them that I was a victim of identity theft, but for some reason they keep sending me emails after emails regarding this balance owed. 

As you're aware I'm XXXX by birth and due to this I never worked. I only get {$960.00} per month from my social security income and from it I must pay the utilities bills, phone bills, gasoline for my XXXX, which is wheelchair equipped, and foods. 

Whenever I email them I don't get a reply. And I'm unable to call them because of my XXXX  XXXX 

I'm reaching out to you to get this resolved by telling them that I was a victim of identity theft. Thank you.

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
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Debt collection — Credit card debt
Issue: Took or threatened to take negative or legal action — Threatened to sue you for very old debt
Company: AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY
State: FL

Complaint narrative:
I received a call today from XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX and one previously several months ago. Caller says name is XXXX. I called back today and they were XXXX XXXX, and woman said I had received a cash payment from AmericanExpress that was not repaid. 
I have never had a cash advance from any credit card company. I have not, to my knowledge, had an AE card ever and my ex. XXXX Husband had one when we were married in the XXXX and XXXX. I was told they are filing charges! They DID have the last 4 numbers of my SS #. 
I have no debt. I am now a single XXXX yr. old woman. I have one XXXX Master Card I pay in full every month. I have no loans, no mortgage, own my own car outright, and am not a deadbeat and never have been. My credit score is XXXX. 
I get very upset when I get calls like this and want them to stop. I have had my identity stolen about XX/XX/XXXX and the FBI became involved because my SS was stolen, my rebate never came from IRS because another person filed in my name and received some debit card which they had requested as the form of rebate. 
Please help, and let me hear from you. XXXX XXXX. email : XXXX XXXX

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Problem with a credit reporting company's investigation into an existing problem — Problem with personal statement of dispute
Company: Flagstar Bank, N.A.
State: TX

Complaint narrative:
XX/XX/XXXX my XXXX XXXX showed it was closed out due to transfer and on XX/XX/XXXX it was officially transferred to Flagstar. This affected my credit but knocking it down however this was within the 60 days of transfer when credit reporting is NOT supposed to happen. This is a problem. This needs to be fixed.

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
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Problem with a credit reporting company's investigation into an existing problem — Investigation took more than 30 days
Company: TRANSUNION INTERMEDIATE HOLDINGS, INC.
State: CO

Complaint narrative:
Hello i am very distressed to inform you about the inaccurate reporting and violation of federal law that i have single handedly been dealing with, I sent in my dispute in 47 day ago ( XXXX ) and have still had no type of response. I feel as if i deserve more respect and common decency that i am obviously not receiving. I have informed each bureau that In these letter I quote According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Section 609 ( a ) ( 1 ) ( A ), you are required by federal law to verify, through the physical verification of the original signed consumer contract, any and all accounts that you post on a credit report. Otherwise anyone paying for your reporting services could fax, mail or email in a fraudulent account. 

I would also like to bring to your attention that according 15 U.S. Code 6802 ( a ) A financial institution may not disclose any non public personal information to a non affiliated third party company without my consent. 

Your failure to positively verify these accounts has hurt my ability to obtain credit. Under the FCRA, unverifiable accounts must be removed and if you are unable to provide me a copy of verifiable proof, you must remove the account listed below. 

I would appreciate these accounts being removed in a timely manner, thank you

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
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Debt collection — Medical debt
Issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed — Debt is not yours
Company: ORG GC GP BUYER, LLC
State: IN

Complaint narrative:
XXXX XXXX XXXX  robocalls me daily about medical debt in a city I dont live in ( XXXX ) 300 miles away, when I verifiably have no outstanding debts and good credit. Phone numbers they have used are XXXX ( XXXX ) XXXX and XXXX ( XXXX ) XXXX. They actually tried this same scam years ago on the same kind of non-existent debt in the same city ( XXXX ). Ive had enough. They need to be punished severely for scamming XXXX knows how many people.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Problem with a credit reporting company's investigation into an existing problem — Their investigation did not fix an error on your report
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: OK

Complaint narrative:
Im submitting this complaint against XXXX, Equifax, and XXXX due to their total disregard for my consumer rights under the FCRA/FCBA/FDCPA. For several months now, I've been disputing inaccurate and unverifiable information showing up on my credit report by this company. I have requested intimate information about the alleged accounts, including a copy of an agreement with my signature on it, but I have yet to receive anything. These companies continue to electronically verify these " ghost '' accounts without providing any legally binding evidence, such as a signed contract and complete accounting of the record, as required by law. They're clearly lying and thus the reason Im asking for proof. However, these companies refuse to provide it, which is not right and is not compliant with the FCRA/FDCPA. Im absolutely fed up. My life has been in complete ruin as a result of this. It's causing enormous mental and financial distress, preventing me from getting approved from credit that I am rightfully entitled to, and not to mention the ample amount of time that I must take out to try and resolve this matter myself. This has brought a great deal of harm to my family as a whole as well. Ive just had enough! Please help! I hope to hear from you soon.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Problem with a credit reporting company's investigation into an existing problem — Investigation took more than 30 days
Company: EQUIFAX, INC.
State: NC

Complaint narrative:
Hello i am very distressed to inform you about the inaccurate reporting and violation of federal law that i have single handedly been dealing with, I sent in my dispute in 47 day ago ( XXXX ) and have still had no type of response. I feel as if i deserve more respect and common decency that i am obviously not receiving. I have informed each bureau that In these letter I quote According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Section 609 ( a ) ( 1 ) ( A ), you are required by federal law to verify, through the physical verification of the original signed consumer contract, any and all accounts that you post on a credit report. Otherwise anyone paying for your reporting services could fax, mail or email in a fraudulent account. 
I would also like to bring to your attention that according 15 U.S. Code 6802 ( a ) A financial institution may not disclose any non public personal information to a non affiliated third party company without my consent. 

Your failure to positively verify these accounts has hurt my ability to obtain credit. Under the FCRA, unverifiable accounts must be removed and if you are unable to provide me a copy of verifiable proof, you must remove the account listed below. 

I would appreciate these accounts being removed in a timely manner, thank you

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Debt collection — Credit card debt
Issue: Written notification about debt — Didn't receive enough information to verify debt
Company: Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC
State: LA

Complaint narrative:
I contacted portfolio recovery company by mail to verify that I owe the debt within 30 days and they fail to do so. They constantly call and harass but fail to verify the debt.

Company response to consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Credit card or prepaid card — General-purpose credit card or charge card
Issue: Problem with a purchase shown on your statement — Card was charged for something you did not purchase with the card
Company: DISCOVER BANK
State: GA

Complaint narrative:
Discover card is trying to make me pay for fraud charges that they refused to investigate. Now a year later they have added the fraud charges back on the account and demanding me to pay. I spoke with XXXX today with Discover Executive Office of Customer Advocacy who informed me that the person who had been investigating my case closed it. I have several complaints with the XXXX  and I have also filed a complaint with consumer finance.gov. Discover had two departments making changes to my account the fraud dept and the billing dept. Because of them not investigating the fraud charges and both departments making errors now they want me to pay for fraud charges a year later and I refused to pay any more money. The total amount that I owed them was {$3900.00} when the fraud charges for the amount of {$1300.00} is deducted that left a balance of {$2500.00}. XX/XX/2020 through XX/XX/2020, I made total payments of {$900.00} leaving a balance of {$1600.00}. In XX/XX/2020 I made a final payment of {$1700.00} that's a total of {$2600.00} which I added interest. I had frozen my account in XX/XX/2020 Discover continued to post charges to my account, they also let fraud charges post to my account. After contacting them and asking them to stop all reoccurring charges they allowed them to come through also. Now they are telling me that my case is closed. Discover have refused to send me a detailed billing showing me what my charges are. I never received a report showing that they investigated the fraud charges. XXXX at Discover today XXXX XXXX refused to go over my billing questions. Everything that they have done is illegal and that needs to stop. Now they have sent a letter to the XXXX stating that I owe them {$800.00} for fraud charges that they refused to investigate. They need to show me on my statements how they come up with a different figure than what I have provided. Now they are sending negatives reports to the credit bureau stating that I owe them {$800.00}.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Mortgage — Conventional home mortgage
Issue: Closing on a mortgage — 
Company: Solidifi US, Inc.
State: FL

Complaint narrative:
closed on a home loan back in XXXX of XXXX. Now in XXXX of XXXX, the mortgage company is harassing me to get some documents signed that were NOT signed by the 3rd owner of the property. The mortgage company has threatened to " unwind '' the loan if the documents are not signed within the next month. they also threatened to charge me {$600.00} to get a notary to go and get the 3rd owner to sign. I feel that they should NOT have closed or funded the loan until all the documents were signed. I further feel that its NOT my responsibility to get the documents signed.

Company public response: Company believes complaint caused principally by actions of third party outside the control or direction of the company
Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2021-03-17 00:00:00
Product: Mortgage — Conventional home mortgage
Issue: Trouble during payment process — 
Company: Better Mortgage, Inc.
State: CO

Complaint narrative:
Refinanced through Better Mortgage, which took almost 4 months, they forced me to make repairs that didn't need to be made ( cosmetic siding issues ), they refused to listen to the tenants currently living in the units when they said things were working ( wall heaters ), and forced me to pay have a handyman go out to ensure they were in fact working, because they couldn't trust the people living there. They sold my loan to XXXX in XXXX, I received the notification after I had made a principle only payment to them on XXXX ( the overpayment of the loan, I wanted to put back on the principle ). Multiple emails stated I could not make any more payments to current servicer ( Better/TMS ) and all payments would be transferred before the payment was due XX/XX/XXXX. XX/XX/XXXX I called when the loan wasn't transferred, was told to wait until XXXX, still didn't show up, I had to call XXXX to make a payment on the account. Again email on XX/XX/XXXX saying the payment is still transferring, and it would be in there by XX/XX/XXXX. Still no payment transfer today, more than 5 weeks after it was drafted out of my bank account. I am still paying interest on the principle which should be {$1700.00} less. Better refuses to answer any questions.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation