Equifax wiped out his credit score — and a little-known policy means he can't get it back
Equifax wiped out his credit score — and a little-known policy means he can't get it back
Equifax refused to restore his credit score or explain why it dropped to zero, until Go Public started asking questions.
Only then did the company point to its little-known policy: If a credit file sits inactive, the consumer may be labelled "unscoreable" and their score reset to zero. Tregear says the last time he checked, before it disappeared, his score was around a more respectable 700.
Go Public has since found a major flaw in consumer protection rules — that there are no laws or oversight on how credit scores are calculated, leaving credit bureaus to do what they want.
Consumer advocate Geoff White says that gives credit bureaus too much power, with no transparency.
Surely this comes under the topic 'Identity Theft'?
By reducing his score to zero, effectively wiping out his entire credit history, they have completely stolen his identity and taken it completely away from him?
Credit scores are a scam. I've been unemployed for a year and my credit score has never been higher.
I dont think employers report to credit bureaus. As long you arent late on bills, (or have none) than your score wont change.
That said, yeah they are a scam.
If you fully pay off a debt that negatively impacted your credit, once paid, it should no longer hurt your score.
Credit scores should only be negatively impacted if you don't pay it back, and they have to write it off or take collective action.
I have seen too many credit scores ruined by a few missed payments and its very silly.
There are time limits built in to the algorithm for calculating your score, that are there because of the agencies themselves and by legislation. Even the negative effects of a bankruptcy completely clear after a given amount of time. One suspects, in fact, if this person DID have negative factors affecting their credit, it would not have been reset to zero. There would have been a timer clicking away to keep feeding the account algorithm with fresh data.
I have seen too many credit scores ruined by a few missed payments and its very silly.
Very unlikely unless they already had a shaky credit history.
I closed my oldest credit card a bit ago, and it just dented my score by 30 for a few months before rebounding. I also missed a payment once (thought I had auto pay on, I didn't) and as far as I remember it didn't change my score.
Very unlikely unless they already had a shaky credit history.
The article says different.
I also missed a payment once (thought I had auto pay on, I didn't) and as far as I remember it didn't change my score.
You have to miss two payments (of any kind, not just a credit card) within a 12-month period for it to affect your credit score.
How can this post created in the 'Canada' community be cross posted into the 'Canada' community? Somehow the same post got 'created' twice in the same community.
Because you are not the customer. It doesn't score for you, it scores the potential a lender can make money off of you.
Your response to my post makes absolutely no sense, unless you are a chatbot. My post has nothing to do with credit or a credit report, it has to do with a glitch in the coding of Lemmy itself. Two identical posts - posted at the same time by the same person using exactly the same URL and heading.
Scary, reading some of the posts herein, how some people (many?) have absolutely no idea how credit reporting agencies or your credit score actually work. The term 'clueless' comes to mind.