How Mistakes Are Made
If your credit report contains errors, it is often because the report is incomplete, or contains information about someone else. This typically happens because:
- You applied for credit under different names (Mary Jones, Mary Jones-Smith, etc.).
- Someone made a clerical error in reading or entering name or address information from a hand-written application.
- You gave an inaccurate Social Security number, or the number was misread by the lender.
- Loan or credit card information was inadvertently applied to the wrong account.
