Remove unauthorized inquiry: Sample letter to credit bureau

Thank Richard for such a useful sample letter. People really look for these letters when in need. Can we have a separate sample letter section altogether?

I too have similar opinion since I have seen other forums where these letters are hard to find in the jungle of posts.

But I think it will be better to have this sample letter section in our upcoming Wiki. This will help others as well to improve/update the content of the letters and at the same time add new ones.

~Carol

Talk to several attorneys and find one willing to do it on contingency. The court may award their fees to be paid by the party erroneously reporting.

How did you verify these as sole accounts?

Did the CC companies say their records show them as sole accounts? Did you dispute with them in writing? Did you dispute with the CRAs in writing? Are they being reported by the OC (the original CC company), or by a CA?

Are you saying that you never applied jointly with your husband? Were you an authorized user? Were these accounts opened after you separated or divorced? Are you in a community property state? What does your state law say about such debts if incurred while married?

Yeah.......you should dispute them as not yours.
If you are only an authorized user on the accts, they will get deleted without a hassle.

hi, hiblues...

What you said about EX, is very intersting... I would like to hear from anyone else who has tried this method...

Well, I just saw the dates....my bad...

Hey Jimmy, if the account was sold, then it was in default.. The company who purchases the "bad account" can and will pull your credit..

did you post it in the paper 3 times that you are not responsible for your xs bills this is whats required in some states to not be held accountable. especially if your names not on the account and you can verify the charges were made after the separation.

Thats a pretty old question Da. :)

Wasn't even aware you could post something like that in the paper. Wow.

yeah you can post just about anything you want to if you are willing to pay for it.

No point reviving this thread. Its dead.

True, too bad there was not a way to archive older threads?????

still here

Hi Maine,

http://www.creditmagic.org/repair/dispute-letter.html
this might be of some help i think. You can modify the letter as per your requirement as well.

that is a great letter, very useful link for all of us here to use. thanks

ditto here thanks for the info

I think we should have all the posts like this in an article section. That way they would all be together.

Kind opf like a resource center. It sure would make it handy for a person.

How many visits the article section? I guess we could give them suggestions on what else is required from that section so that we can make it the way we want. Am I right?

Yes you are.

Could you do that Justin, can you pm the suggestion to whoever you need to pm it too, that would be great.

ditto. It would also be appreciated.

So nothing in my personal box, guess Justin is not gonna send me it.

Dry your eyes goodnatured maybe he will send something soon.

I don't think so, still nothing

I think we should decide on the topics which should be there in the article section for the help of forum members. We can directly post our needs through messages in the forum. I think, we ourselves can write articles and post it in the forum too.

Probaly some mix up at their office. Were you there also for a car loan? If not I would inquire about it at the car lot and ask why they ran your credit without your consent. You would have to consent to have your credit pulled. If it was their error see what they can do to rectify the situation and also contact the credit bureau and explain this was done in error and tell them what the car company said.

Hi Jerry
Each time the lender pulls up your credit report, it gets enlisted as a hard inquiry. Each hard inquiry lowers your credit score by as much as 5 points. However these hard inquiries are not valid until they get authorization from you to perform such inquiries as per the FDCP Act. So you can send a letter to the inquirer asking them to remove the hard inquiry listing from the credit report or verify your authorization. This is because if this listing remains in your credit report, it will adversely affect your credit score. In most cases these inquirers simply delete this listing because they cannot verify your authorization.

Probaly would still take pulling teeth. One thing I have learned that it may be easy for people to do something simple but getting them to do it is usually an issue.

Hi fireyone
The inquirers can easily remove the listing from your credit report by just making a simple request to the bureaus as goodnatured said. However they will only remove it, if it is unauthorized. Now if they don't remove the unauthorized hard inquiry listing from your credit report you may dispute the listing directly with the bureaus or you may even threaten the CA to complain against them to the State Banking Commission if they do not remove the unauthorized listing.

Wow that really good info. I did not even know you could report them to the State Banking Commission. Actually I nevr even heard of such a thing. Thats something new I just learned and hope everyone else finds this info valuable also.

There are many reporting entities out there that we as consumers can use to report abuse, we just have to find them and use them appropriately. The state banking commision in Pennsylvania has direct access to the attorney generals office and when those two get together for tea, somebody is going to answer some questions. These two are the ones that shut down the storefront payday loan vendors through out the state of pennsylvania. And they did it in a matter of months, they are all about protecting their consumers.

What is " line number" ? My report just says who and when did the inquiry.

Hi Sven:

Line number is the number of the line where the inquiry has been mentioned.

Parwin:

Letters of credit are the ones used to write letters to the creditors, collection agencies, credit bureaus, etc. These letters of credit can be like Dispute letter, Pay for delete letter, Debt validation letter, etc. However, I have never heard of Fresh letter of credit. Can I know here from have you got this phrase? This may mean sending a fresh or rather new letter.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Aaron

I did not know that you could report anyone to the state banking commision either, will have to do some looking up on our states banking commission site. Thanks for the information.

i read somewhere that credit bureaus will only consider removing inquiries that are more than two years old..is that correct?

Hi vfsalinas,

Yes, hard inquiries that are two years old, and are still there on the credit report, can be disputed. Hard inquiries (authorized ones) cannot be removed before two years.

Thanks,

Aaron

I have a couple inquiries on my credit report..on my credit report it states..."number of inquiries adversely affected credit score"... I hate that the just inquiries are affecting my credit score....Thanks for the good info....

Hi vfsalinas,

Can I know whether or not these inquiries are authorized ones?

Thanks,

Aaron

You shared a really informatics format, it is useful for me, thanks for sharing it.