The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reacting to thousands of complaints across the country by consumers about credit repair companies. As a result, the FTC (along with 24 state agencies in 22 states) launched Operation Clean Sweep.
The FTC is charging 33 companies with violating the FTC Act and the Credit Repair Organizations Act (CROA). The FTC states that these companies made false claims they could remove accurate information from their credit reports. The agency also alleged that the defendants violated the CROA by charging an advance fee for credit repair services.
Here is the list of 33 companies that are being charged with violating the CROA.
- Advantage Credit Repair, LLC
- Nationwide Credit Services, Inc.
- Clean Credit Report Services, Inc.
- Successful Credit Service Corporation
- Hargrave & Associates Financial Solutions
- American Credit Experts
- RCA Credit Services, LLC
- Good Credit Company
- Payneless Credit Repair, LLC
- Lee Harrison Credit Restoration
- Sherrye Mance and Tiffany Morris
- Absolute/Advanced Credit Services
- Credit Advisors
- Executive Financial Credit Services
- Federal Debt Relief Systems
- Financial Link Services
- 7 Steps to a 720 Credit Score - NOT THE 720 CREDIT GURU!!!
- Integrity Credit Fix, Inc.
- My Purchase Power, LLC
- Enterprise Technology Group, Inc. doing business as Ameritrust Financial Card
- New Leaf Associates, LLC
- Financial Freedom Resources, Inc.
- American Credit
- Credit Counseling of the First Coast
- United Credit Adjusters, Inc.
- i3 Solutions
- Warren and Associates
- Bigger & Better Business Solutions
- Affordable Computer Mobile Repair
- Clean Credit Report Services, Inc.
- Life Changing Credit Repair Services
- The Credit Physician
- Creditmax Financial, LLC
How can you avoid turning credit repair into credit despair? Here are a few suggestions from the FTC:
- Avoid any company that wants you to pay for credit repair services before they provide any services. It is against the law.
- Avoid any credit repair company that will not tell you your legal rights and what you can do, yourself, for free.
- Avoid any credit repair company that tells you not to contact a credit reporting company directly.
- Avoid any credit repair company that advises you to dispute all of the information in your credit report.
- Avoid any company that suggests creating a 'new' credit identity - and then, a new credit report - by applying for an Employer Identification Number to use instead of your Social Security number. That is against the law.
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