Debt collectors report accounts on credit files with no relationship to the consumer
A debt collector reports a delinquent account to credit bureaus for a debt the consumer says they never opened, describing it as identity theft or a duplicate record. The consumer has no account history with the collector to reference in disputing the entry.
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