x2sdavis 10 Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 I have been work on this since March 2004. And all EX keep sending is Previously Investigated. After they recieve my letter,in about 4 day, I get the Previously Investigated letter. Where do I go from here.Here is a copy of the last letter I sent. What am I doing wrong?At a stand still. Re: Account Capital One Bank Account CBUSears Account Homecoming FinancialTo Experian,I am not asking for a reinvestigation to be done. Thisis a request for deletion of disputed items. I haveattempted to have this inaccurate and incompletereporting verified by Experian to no avail. I am respectfullyrequesting that Experian, do what is legally mandated by the FCRA and delete the above mentioned account from my consumer file. On May 11, 2004 Experian received a notice of dispute from me (enclosed as “Letter 1”) resulting in Experian advising methat the account had been verified. (enclosed as“Letter 2”)On June 14, 2004 Experian received a notice requesting the procedures used to verify the information (enclosed as “Letter 3”), so that I couldduplicate your results (as allowed by the FCRA section§ 611. Procedure in case of disputed accuracy [15 U.S.C. § 1681i]). This section spells out exactly what must be sent to the consumer (me). I am inclosing the response from Experian to my procedural request (enclosed as “Letter 4”). As you can see, Experian did not meet these requirements mandated by law.The FCRA states that information reported must be accurate and complete; updated and verifiable. It also provides a dispute mechanism initiated by the consumer through the consumer reporting agency. As detailed above, I have disputed the information forthe referenced account, with Experian. I have exhausted all recourses provided for resolution of erroneous information and still theinformation remains on my consumer report. The FCRA provides a cause of action for an individualconsumer as well as penalties and liabilities for bothconsumer reporting agencies for non-compliance asviolations of its provisions. It is evident that the information reported cannot beverified and therefore must be deleted as required. When a debt is disputed under either mechanism, anotation must be entered on the debtor's reportshowing the item as in dispute. Again, this was notdone and is a further violation of the FCRA. Pursuant to the FCRA, if no proof of debt exists andthe information reported is not verifiable, it may notbe furnished to the consumer reporting agencies norreported by them. The FCRA also states that consumerreporting agencies must accept written proof from thedebtor. § 611. Procedure in case of disputed accuracy [15U.S.C. § 1681i] "(7) Description of reinvestigation procedure. Aconsumer reporting agency shall provide to a consumera description referred to in paragraph (6)((iii) bynot later than 15 days after receiving a request fromthe consumer for that description." Paragraph (6)((iii) "(iii) a notice that, if requested by the consumer, adescription of the procedure used to determine theaccuracy and completeness of the information shall beprovided to the consumer by the agency, including thebusiness name and address of any furnisher ofinformation contacted in connection with suchinformation and the telephone number of suchfurnisher, if reasonably available;" Therefore, I am not asking for a reinvestigation to bedone, I am requesting that the entry be deleted in itsentirety as there is no proof of its existence and theinformation presently reported is not verifiable, asevidenced by my attached documented proof. I look forward to your response. I am enclosing copiesof all correspondence I have referred to in thisletter. If you decline this offer of settlement, Iwill seek the full amount available in county courtand a court order from the judge ordering that theinformation be removed. I will be seeking to obtain a mortgage in the nearfuture. If this invalid credit report informationforces me to pay a higher interest rate than I wouldotherwise, I will be filing a new lawsuit against youfor the difference in payments over the life of athirty-year mortgage. Such damages could exceed$100,000 if the interest rate would be just a coupleof percentage points higher than it should be with acorrect report. Please do the correct thing and resolve this issuenow. It will save everyone an enormous amount of timeand expense that could and should be avoided.Best regards, Link to post Share on other sites
bluealex915 10 Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 First off did you mail all your letters certified with a green card and do you have copies of all your letters as well as Exp responses to your letters.If you do then I think you have got them in a wilfull/negligent non compliance violation if anything and probibly some FCRA violations under Section 611 (A) (1) (a) and (5) (a). I would try one more draft of a really great intent to sue letter and send it off ceritified with copies of all your supporting evidence, including copies of all the certified mail reciepts and green cards.Give them 20 days from thier receipt of your letter to respond, if they still screw around take them to court, they deserve it by this time. I mailed my intent to sue letter a week ago and am waiting to see what they do. If they don't take me seriously I am going to small claims with four violations against them.Oh ya, in your intent to sue letter don't forget to tell them that you are going to file a formal complaint against them with the FTC and the BBB. That is what I did in my letter. I too was getting jerked around with the previously investigated crap and got tired of it.If none of this gets thier attention sue thier asses off for all of us they do this kind of thing too.This is just my opinion and I am sure someone in here can give you some great advice.....................Good luck Link to post Share on other sites
willy2004 10 Posted August 2, 2004 Report Share Posted August 2, 2004 hi, I intend to post on this subject soon, excuse me as I am marking/bumping the thread. Link to post Share on other sites