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Yes. The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act provides statutory damages for access to your credit reports without permissible purpose. It's pretty easy to do as you can sue in your local small claims court. What you need to do is determine that you actually did not gi

Section 611(c) of the FCRA provides: "Whenever a statement of dispute is filed, . . . the consumer reporting agency shall, in any subsequent consumer report containing the information in question, clearly note that it is disputed by the consumer and provide either the consumer's statement or a clear and accurate ...

Section 611 is invoked when a credit bureau responds to your dispute and says it has verified the information. Once you identify what kind of letter you need to write, you'll need: Your name, address, phone, and other identifying information. The information for the credit bureaus' you want to contact.

The FCRA establishes rights and responsibilities for “consumers,” “furnishers,” and “users” of credit reports: Consumers are individuals. Furnishers are entities that send information to CRAs regarding creditworthiness in the normal course of business.

The FCRA gives you the right to be told if information in your credit file is used against you to deny your application for credit, employment or insurance. The FCRA also gives you the right to request and access all the information a consumer reporting agency has about you (this is called "file disclosure").

Notice violations under the FCRA might occur when: a creditor fails to notify you when it supplies negative credit information to a credit reporting agency. a user of credit information (such as a prospective employer or lender) fails to notify you of a negative decision based on your credit report.

The FCRA requires an insurance company to tell you if they have taken an “adverse action” against you, in whole or in part, because of your credit report information.

The Act requires creditors to give consumers 60 days to challenge certain disputed charges over $50 such as wrong amounts, inaccurate statements, undelivered or unacceptable goods, and transactions by unauthorized users. Also, the Act limits liability of consumers for transactions by unauthorized users to $50.

The Act (Title VI of the Consumer Credit Protection Act) protects information collected by consumer reporting agencies such as credit bureaus, medical information companies and tenant screening services. Information in a consumer report cannot be provided to anyone who does not have a purpose specified in the Act.