Unsolicited Credit Card Issued by Wells Fargo
A consumer received a Wells Fargo credit card at their home address despite never applying for one, with a corresponding hard inquiry appearing on their credit report. After contacting both the bank and all three credit bureaus to close the account and dispute the inquiry, the negative items remained. This highlights a gap in lender identity verification and the difficulty consumers face removing fraudulently opened account records.
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