How credit report mistakes are made
When a credit report contains errors, it is often because the report is
incomplete, or contains information about someone else. This typically happens
because:
- The person applied for credit under different names
(Robert Jones, Bob Jones, etc.).
- Someone made a clerical error in reading or entering
name or address information from a hand-written application.
- The person gave an inaccurate Social Security number,
or the number was misread by the lender.
- Loan or credit card payments were inadvertently applied to the wrong
account.
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