I had a previous collection account with XXXX XXXX. This account was settled on XXXX/XXXX/XXXX and it was closed. As of XXXX/XXXX/XXXX i had a notice that there had been a hard inquiry on my experian credit report from XXXX, i contacted the agency and they told me that no one had ran my credit and my account was closed years ago. so they refused to help me. I contacted experian on the problem but they said that since it 's not fraud there is nothing they can do, i most contact consumer finance .gov and report them.. Please help.