I have not received a final response from Equifax because they are not responding to me. After months of attempting to obtain my credit report, I have heard nothing since submitting copies of my identification over XXXX weeks ago. 

I have received multiple notifications from merchants that my credit card information has been compromised and have been attempting for months to get a copy of my credit report. The credit reporting agencies appear to be manipulating the system to make it very difficult actually to receive a report. First, I attempted to get a credit report from the website. One of the required questions was the exact amount of the payment on a car loan that was paid off more than ten years ago. Next, I attempted to order a report by telephone and was told by the system that I had to write in. Then, I wrote in and eventually received a form letter claiming that my address was unknown. My address is a house that I own and have carried a mortgage on for XXXX years ; the mortgage itself - with my home address - is surely on my credit report. The response is wholly implausible. Nevertheless, I wrote in over a month ago ( XX/XX/XXXX ) providing, as requested, a copy of my driver 's license and my Social Security card. I have received no response. 

Equifax 's conditioning the required free credit report on information no one would reasonably be expected to possess ( the amount of the monthly payment on a loan closed for over a decade ), the claim that easily verifiable information ( the address of a house on which I have had a mortgage since 2002 and for which I have all the standard utility accounts ), and the failure to respond even after I have provided all requested documentation following multiple attempts over months - all while I have been told by credit card processors that my information has been compromised and I should check my credit reports immediately - is inexcusable and, taken together, raises strong inferences of a deliberate attempt to comply in form with the requirement to provide credit reports while in practice making it as difficult and burdensome as possible to obtain those reports. I also note that I have been offered " credit monitoring '' and other paid services along the way ( for example, " Equifax Complete '' ). I suggest that the credit bureaus be prohibited from offering paid consumer credit monitoring services in order to remove the obvious conflict of interest giving them every incentive to make it difficult for consumers to obtain the statutorily mandated free reports and drive them to the paid services.