Category Archives: Systemic violations

My published complaint to the FTC about the Experian lates after charge-off or collection

My DRAFT complaint to the FTC is posted at http://credit-reporting-collection-ftc-complaints.info/category/devry-experian-late-payments/

I have not received a response from Experian or DeVry and I’ll snail mail everything next week to the FTC. That DeVry would DELIBERATELY destroy their former students’ credit and lives is beyond belief.   Obviously, that’s a school to be avoided at any cost.

Very important, I also addressed Experian’s refusal to disclose when derogatory accounts will be deleted and the possibly re-aging of collections and charge-offs.

Experian’s LACK of reasonable procedures: lates after chargeoff

TYPICAL Experian OBVIOUS incorrect reporting includes late payments AFTER an account was charged off.

The Trans Union FICO score WITH this account (including an incorrect balance), 5 public records and 2 collections is 689.

As POSITIVE TU score factor Fair Isaac lists:

You’ve recently been paying your bills on time.

Your most recent late payment happened 6 Years ago

The time since the most recent late payment is CRITICAL for FICO scores and obviously the scores will be LOWER when it’s been 3 years instead of 6 years since the last delinquency.

We can’t get the Experian FICO scores anymore (unless your mortgage lender gives you the report), but since this is the only derogatory tradeline, the Experian FICO score is at least 20 points lower than it SHOULD be.

As always, IGNORE the totally fraudulent Experian snake oil score which is often 100 points higher or lower than the FICO scores used by creditors. In this case, the 588 “Plus” score is artificially low.

Very FEW people would notice these BIZARRE late payments AFTER the charge-off:

Most credit repair people will NOT notice the crucial INCORRECT data and will NOT properly dispute it.

They write some idiotic dispute about not remembering the account or the “right” to verification under the FCRA and the creditor obviously VERIFIES because it IS the consumer’s account.

Sure, the account could be deleted, as the credit bureaus will when a creditor doesn’t respond to the dispute on time. But the chances of deletion are identical when you dispute factually:

“Please delete all late payments after the account was charged off.”

If they verify and especially if it’s the most recent late payment (as in this case), you might want to sue.

If they verify after you submitted your FRIVOLOUS or FALSE dispute, you branded yourself as a lying moron and of course you can NOT expect correction of something you didn’t dispute.

Of course, nobody should have to dispute such OBVIOUS incorrect data.

I’m not aware of ANY procedures by Experian or any CRA to ensure maximum accuracy of credit data.

Any first year programmer can write a routine that automatically flags late payments after the account was charged off.

It’s child’s play.

Instead, the CRAs strive to report INCORRECT and INCOMPLETE FICO score lowering data.

Incorrect credit reporting PAYS!

The worse the credit, the greater the CRAs’ profits from sales to consumers who try to improve their credit and to creditors who turn consumers down and/or look for the profitable SUBPRIME customer.

If the incorrect credit reporting leads to additional defaults, the CRAs make even MORE money from credit report sales to collectors.

The credit bureaus have NO incentive to provide COMPLETE and ACCURATE credit reports.

The extremely important Experian STATUS and DELETION dates

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When was this account charged off?

How does a CREDITOR know how to rate this account?

How does Experian determine when the account is to be deleted?

How do FICO scores rate the account?

Since Fair Isaac does NOT provide the DETAILS for the scores such as how many months ago an account was delinquent, I cannot prove how the account is rated.

Experian should be ORDERED to provide the dates of the charge-off to creditors and the date of first permanent delinquency to creditors.  I’ve SUED Experian over this and the deposition is at CreditCourt.  That’s the case I had to dismiss because they filed my totally unredacted credit reports on PACER for ANYONE to download.

To all you credit experts:

Can you tell me when this account was charged off or when the account first became permanent delinquent?

Can you tell me whether the scheduled deletion date is CORRECT?

I’ll try to post how Fair Isaac reports the account soon.

Credit bureaus and Sallie Mae REFUSE to correct student loan high credit reporting

Every month the balances on deferred student loans increase as the deferred interest is added, but the “high credit”, “original balance”, “highest amount owed” or whatever label is on the credit reports is NOT increased. 

Obviously, it’s NOT good for credit scores to have installment loan balances higher than the original loan amounts and FICO scoring software does NOT exclude from the installment balance/limit ratio the student loans with the notation indicating that the loan is in deferment

When consumers dispute, the credit bureaus update with the new increased balance, but they do NOT update the “high credit”, the most owed. 

The Experian negative score factor:

The remaining balance on your non-mortgage installment loans is too high.

FICO scoring software determines that you are a poor credit risk because you’re owing more on your non-mortgage installment loans than when you got the loans.

Current balance / high credit = percentage of amount still owed.

In this case:

$8,779 / $6,000 = 146%

Several clients disputed TWICE and TWICE all three credit bureaus FAILED TO CORRECT!

The first dispute of the Sallie Mae student loans to Equifax:

2) Sallie Mae [account # redacted] and [account # redacted] - Please correct the High Credit. It can not possibly be LOWER than the current balance.

Equifax VERIFIED with the incorrect reporting.

The 8/18/08 2nd dispute :

2) You VERIFIED the OBVIOUSLY incorrect reporting of the Sallie Mae student loans with the High Credit LOWER than the current Balance.  Please advise Sallie Mae to correct the reporting and to ensure that ALL student loans are reported correctly as FICO scores are lowered by this practice. 

The 9/9/08 Equifax investigation results:

HUH?

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These two Equifax screenshots are from the SAME investigation results. 

This is a TYPICAL example of communications with credit bureaus.

When a client disputed with Sallie Mae directly, it responded that it was reporting accurately and it failed to correct the credit reporting. 

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