Debt Collector Uses Wrong Identity Data and Refuses to Verify or Remove Inaccurate Records
Credit Control LLC pursued a debt using the wrong city and zip code for the consumer and refused to validate the debt or confirm that inaccurate personal data had been purged from their systems. FDCPA data accuracy requirements exist precisely to prevent this harm, but enforcement is practically impossible without formal complaint escalation. Consumers facing this have no self-service path to correct collector data errors.
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