Credit Blog

Unauthorized hard inquiries (a/k/a impermissible pulls) on one or more of your credit reports should set off alarm bells in your head. If you find what you believe are unauthorized hard inquiries on a credit report, you should contact a reputable consumer credit law firm to help you (a) decipher your credit reports, (b) dispute unauthorized hard inquiries directly to each credit bureau that is reporting them, and (c) help you to decide whether to place heightened security measures, such as a credit freeze, on your credit file(s). Most good consumer lawyers are members of the National Association of Consumer Advocates or NACA.

After completing their respective reasonable investigations, your creditors and the credit bureaus also have separate and independent obligations to correct information that they (a) conclude is inaccurate, AND/OR (b) cannot verify is accurate.

Will disputing an inaccurate credit report harm my credit score? No!  And you should consult with an experienced consumer attorney about how to best dispute all inaccurate information on your credit report.

Imagine how staggering a problem truly is baked into the credit reporting system based on (1) the sheer volume of the complaints received and addressed in 2020 by the CFPB and (2) the fact that just a fraction of the public actually checks their Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion credit reports with any degree of regularity.  There is a lesson you can learn here, and it is this -- Regularly reviewing your credit reports with Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion (something with which we can assist you at no cost) is an essential element of maintaining your financial fitness.