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Woman is awarded $18.6 million in damages
The woman in question discovered, in 2009, that her Equifax credit report was chock full of errors including bad SSN, birthdate, address, errant collections data, etc.
She was denied several loans because of the errounious data. She attempted to on at least 4 seperate occasions to get the information corrected but to no avail. She filled out the appropreate paperwork that dissappeared into the void.
IT also turns out that her data and someone elses somehow got mixed together.
The article also states that Equifax CONTRACTS out complaints
The woman in question discovered, in 2009, that her Equifax credit report was chock full of errors including bad SSN, birthdate, address, errant collections data, etc.
She was denied several loans because of the errounious data. She attempted to on at least 4 seperate occasions to get the information corrected but to no avail. She filled out the appropreate paperwork that dissappeared into the void.
IT also turns out that her data and someone elses somehow got mixed together.
The article also states that Equifax CONTRACTS out complaints
Baxter says he discovered that Equifax wasn't even handling Miller's complaint in-house. "We found that when complaints would come in, they'd run them through a scanner and then send them overseas." Miller's complaint, he says, was sent for processing to a subcontractor in the Philippines.
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