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Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

MakeItAMudLight — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 16:11:49 GMT

Starting December 21st I attempted to unlock all three of mt reports as I'm preparing to buy a new truck by year end. I also subscribe to MyFico and knew what all my scores were. I unlocked Transunion and Experian using their services but couldn't unlock Equifax. It just threw and error and told me to call in. I call in and after speaking to four different people who couldn't explain why I couldn't unlock it they put in a request and said it would be manaully unlocked within 24 hours. I wait until the 26th to get preapprovals and both Navy Fed and PenFed tell me my Equifax report is frozen and to please unfreeze it. Only it's not frozen. I attempt to pull it myself directly from Equifax and MyFico and they both give me an error. I call Equifax and spend almost two hours on the phone again in which time they tell me they can see the report and it isn't frozen however I have it locked. I explain I can't unlock and that they had put in a request to unlock it. They basically tell me I had locked it back myself and they can't unlock it?! So they said they would put in a request to have it unlocked and it could take up to 72 hours to do so.

Fast foward again to yesterday and I still can't pull my Equifax report. Both Navy Fed and Penfed seem to think I have it frozen still and won't offer to pull my other reports. I go to the dealership and see if they can pull it and the first report they try of course is Equifax and they tell me it's frozen. I call Equifax back and they apologize and basically tell me to have the banks pull Tranunion or Experian as there is nothing wrong on their end that they can see but that I will recieve a letter in 30 days explaining why?! It's like I'm in Equifax Hell and apparently can't buy a new vehicle as all the banks I prefer pull Equifax. Sorry for the long post but has anyone ever seen anything like this?

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

thornback — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 16:54:18 GMT

Yea, my Transunion service has also been unable to unlock my Equifax report- it used to, but the error began a couple of months ago and still occurs. And I have been unable to unlock through the EQ website (using TrustedID). I have, however, been able to successfully lock / unlock EQ using their Lock & Alert service - perhaps you can sign up for and try that (if you haven't already)? It's a free service:

https://www.equifax.com/personal/products/credit/credit-lock-alert/

I hope it works, because I have no other suggestions besides filing a complaint against EQ through CFPB...

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

MakeItAMudLight — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 16:54:09 GMT

@thornback wrote:
Yea, my Transunion service has also been unable to unlock my Equifax report- the error began a couple of months ago and still occurs. I have been able to successfully lock / unlock EQ using their Lock & Alert service - perhaps you can sign up for and try that? It's a free service:

https://www.equifax.com/personal/products/credit/credit-lock-alert/

I hope it works, because I have no other suggestions besides filing a complaint against EQ through CFPB...

Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately that was the service I was using to lock it and it just throws an error when I attempt to unlock it and tells me to call in. When I call in they can't unlock it either. I've used the Lock/Unlock several times this past year and never had an issue until now.

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

thornback — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 16:57:03 GMT

Sorry - I don't know what else you can do besides filing a complaint or keep calling them and escalating to management. Equifax is trash.

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 18:47:42 GMT

I was having the same exact problem as tmr with TrustedID (service suppose to end 12/31/18) about 2 weeks ago, it just says "Your Equifax® credit report currently has an Unlock requested Please allow 48 hours to process your request.", still says that when I logged in just now. I then signed up for Lock&Alert and was able to lock/unlock with no issues, I just tried it again and it was instant, got both email and text confirmations.

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 18:51:47 GMT

@MakeItAMudLight wrote:
Starting December 21st I attempted to unlock all three of mt reports as I'm preparing to buy a new truck by year end. I also subscribe to MyFico and knew what all my scores were. I unlocked Transunion and Experian using their services but couldn't unlock Equifax. It just threw and error and told me to call in. I call in and after speaking to four different people who couldn't explain why I couldn't unlock it they put in a request and said it would be manaully unlocked within 24 hours. I wait until the 26th to get preapprovals and both Navy Fed and PenFed tell me my Equifax report is frozen and to please unfreeze it. Only it's not frozen. I attempt to pull it myself directly from Equifax and MyFico and they both give me an error. I call Equifax and spend almost two hours on the phone again in which time they tell me they can see the report and it isn't frozen however I have it locked. I explain I can't unlock and that they had put in a request to unlock it. They basically tell me I had locked it back myself and they can't unlock it?! So they said they would put in a request to have it unlocked and it could take up to 72 hours to do so.

Fast foward again to yesterday and I still can't pull my Equifax report. Both Navy Fed and Penfed seem to think I have it frozen still and won't offer to pull my other reports. I go to the dealership and see if they can pull it and the first report they try of course is Equifax and they tell me it's frozen. I call Equifax back and they apologize and basically tell me to have the banks pull Tranunion or Experian as there is nothing wrong on their end that they can see but that I will recieve a letter in 30 days explaining why?! It's like I'm in Equifax Hell and apparently can't buy a new vehicle as all the banks I prefer pull Equifax. Sorry for the long post but has anyone ever seen anything like this?

Sign up for Equifax Lock & Alert. Its a much better option and also available as a mobile app. It will lock & unlock your Equifax reported even while TrustedID says you have an unlock pending. You can even use the same login credentials you used for TrustedID.

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 18:57:43 GMT

Maize, OP said he was using Lock&Alert.

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

thornback — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 18:57:45 GMT

@MakeItAMudLight wrote:
Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately that was the service I was using to lock it and it just throws an error when I attempt to unlock it and tells me to call in. When I call in they can't unlock it either. I've used the Lock/Unlock several times this past year and never had an issue until now.

I just noticed that there is a 'support' icon in the Lock & Alert mobile app -- did you try that option? If it's technical support specific to the locking / unlocking feature, perhaps they'd be better equipped than Equifax CSR in resolving this issue?

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

MakeItAMudLight — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 20:13:48 GMT

I’ve spoken to the Lock & Alert support team, Equufax customer support, Equifax Global support, technical support, and their fraud team. They all tell me that my report is there but they do see the lock on it. And non of them can unlock it. Most of them say the same thing just unlock it on the app. If it was that simple I would have done that. It’s as if no one there has any control over this Lock & Alert product.

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

thornback — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 20:30:38 GMT

Wow.. I just don't know. **bleep**, this is terrible. I can't believe they have no backend means to remove a lock at customer request - you'd think it'd be a process similar to unfreezing.

I'm assuming you've already tried the service from both the mobile app and the website? I honestly have no other suggestions. I can only hope that it's a glitch that will eventually work itself out but I know that does you zero good right now as it's proventing you from doing what you need to do.

I'm really, really sorry.

@MakeItAMudLight wrote:
I’ve spoken to the Lock & Alert support team, Equufax customer support, Equifax Global support, technical support, and their fraud team. They all tell me that my report is there but they do see the lock on it. And non of them can unlock it. Most of them say the same thing just unlock it on the app. If it was that simple I would have done that. It’s as if no one there has any control over this Lock & Alert product.

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 20:32:08 GMT

Maybe you can try canceling Lock & Alert, it should lift the credit lock, then sign up again after you verify via other means that it's in fact lifted.

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

thornback — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 20:36:40 GMT

This is a good idea. When I cancelled TrustedId (after they notified the service was ending), the lock through that site was apparently auto-lifted. I then signed up for Lock & Alert and re-locked. Worth a try...

@Anonymous wrote:
Maybe you can try canceling Lock & Alert, it should lift the credit lock, then sign up again after you verify via other means that it's in fact lifted.

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

MakeItAMudLight — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 02:31:53 GMT

So you have to call in to cancel Lock & Alert. I just called in a spoke to miltiple people and none of them could cancel my Lock & Alert account. It gives them an error that apparently none of them have ever seen. So the mystery continues. Oddly I'm still getting my account change alerts from MyFico even though I can't pull a new report through here.

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

Pikaboo-icu — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 02:48:19 GMT

@MakeItAMudLight wrote:
So you have to call in to cancel Lock & Alert. I just called in a spoke to miltiple people and none of them could cancel my Lock & Alert account. It gives them an error that apparently none of them have ever seen. So the mystery continues. Oddly I'm still getting my account change alerts from MyFico even though I can't pull a new report through here.

Insanity!

I would say they better be on the phone to their IT people first thing in the morning.

At this point you are suffering DAMAGES!

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 02:57:15 GMT

Guess Equifax is gonna Equifax, hope you get this resolved.

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

MyDataMyChoice — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 01:11:20 GMT

I HIGHLY Suggest everyone interesting in 'LOCKING' their credit... DON'T

FREEZE Your credit instead. Freezing can be undone just as fast as a Lock. Freezes are Free. Freezes are protected by state legislature. and locks are only contract law.

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

MakeItAMudLight — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:40:28 GMT

Just to give a follow up it seems my report is now showing as unlocked as of two days ago however I still can't pull my own copy of the report and they can't seem to tell me why. I really don't want to apply for anything just to see if the report is truely unlocked.

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

Anonymous — Fri, 17 May 2019 02:05:54 GMT

Something happened with my equifax report on 5/9, that was the last time that anything updated for them. I tryed to order my equifax report directly through the equifax site and got an error, I tried to order a 3b report through Experian and got an error about a mismatch with Equifax, I tried to sign up for a monthly membership through myfico and also got mismatch through Myfico. Even credit karma has not updated equifax since 5/9. The only thing that happened on 5/9 was me ordering my free annual report for equifax. I have called equifax 3 times and am not getting anywhere. This is frustraiting because we are supposed to go back to underwriter at the end of this month. Someone please help.

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

Anonymous — Fri, 17 May 2019 03:19:41 GMT

Did your equifax report ever pull up for you? I am now on the phone with the 9th person in 2 days and not having any luck.

Re: Can't Unlock or Pull Equifax Report

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:07:46 GMT

How did you get this resolved? I am applying for a mortgage and cant unlock my report. This is soooo frustrating. I've been on the phone with Equifax for 2 days and constantly emailing support. They seem to not have a clue.