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The Bureaus, Inc.

High Risk
  • 1,986 consumer complaints filed with CFPB
  • 6 community reports from users

Campaign Intelligence

This cluster centers on 2764 connected domains tagged as BeaverTail, Kaiji, fbf543. 645 of these domains have been flagged by threat intelligence feeds including Google Safe Browsing and URLhaus. The connected infrastructure includes 1132 phone numbers (7638857447, 8664372914, 2157987305) with 10266 FTC complaints; 146 companies (JPMORGAN CHASE & CO., Advanced Resolution Services Inc., EVERBANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION) with 8616274 CFPB complaints; 298 email addresses (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@vm...

This cluster centers on 3287 connected domains tagged as HijackLoader, RemcosRAT, screenconnect. 617 of these domains have been flagged by threat intelligence feeds including Google Safe Browsing and URLhaus. The connected infrastructure includes 1649 phone numbers (5408463620, 8552597377, 8007873903) with 7110 FTC complaints; 143 companies (Informative LLC, HomePlus Corporation, Doral Capital Corporation) with 8547081 CFPB complaints; 807 email addresses (kellymoore_64@yahoo.com, schantzsybg7@...

Community members have submitted 4 distinct reports about The Bureaus, Inc. between November 2018 and May 2023. This company has also received 1974 complaints in the CFPB database. Here is what people are reporting: "Parents opened credit cards in my name I turned 18 a month ago. My parents confessed they have been using my name for credit cards. While I am angry I do not want my parents to go to jail. My question is how can I proceed to clean this up. They told me the payments went into deli...

This cluster centers on 2874 connected domains tagged as QuasarRAT, StealitStealer, pw-k53mv9bc. 652 of these domains have been flagged by threat intelligence feeds including Google Safe Browsing and URLhaus. The connected infrastructure includes 1375 phone numbers (2157987305, 2025069230, 2028641298) with 14635 FTC complaints; 160 companies (JPMORGAN CHASE & CO., Advanced Resolution Services Inc., EVERBANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION) with 8680419 CFPB complaints; 299 email addresses (abuse@fb.com, ...

This cluster centers on 1486 connected domains tagged as None, keylogger. 5 of these domains have been flagged by threat intelligence feeds including Google Safe Browsing and URLhaus. The connected infrastructure includes 1364 phone numbers (3124141737, 3163966869, 8553892999) with 17909 FTC complaints; 170 companies (EQUIFAX, INC., TRANSUNION INTERMEDIATE HOLDINGS, INC., BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION) with 8747332 CFPB complaints; 187 email addresses (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@vmh5.grup...

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CFPB Complaints
1986
Industry
Debt collection

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Community Reports

I am wanting everyone to please be caution of any monitoring alert regarding your credit. My scammers, C**** & G******** B***** of the Shiny Hunters have cloned my account and have been sending our fake monitoring alerts on businesses that I have done business with and I have paid off. This is harassment and they are wanting to destroy my financiers continuously. They will attack your financiers to enrich themselves not caring that the account was still opened when I accessed to learn about the alerts! Before they attack our finances, we were doing great. I went from a 749 to a 431. They continue to gray out good credit, abstracting our payments from paid off accounts making them due again adding them to our credit leaving us to fix the mess they made. They also, attack these businesses, through the credit bureau. For instance, when we request a copy of our credit report, they don’t come from the bureaus, they come from the B******. The Equifax in 2017 it is my belief they were responsible because I had fake Equifax reports. They are using my credit and now as I stated before, they caused the Trans union data breach. I received one of the data breach letters with pushed fonts and different names of fonts on the letter,. Everyone G********, C**** B***** Sr are dangerous people. They have caused the Snap attacks in the media and they have caused the Toll scams and the DMV scam. I receive text messages with; multiple text messages with at least 11 people in a group text and spoofing numbers.. please be careful of these two as they are being investigated .css-c8hvdp{--Grid-columns:12;-webkit-flex-direction:row;-ms-flex-direction:row;flex-direction:row;min-width:0;box-sizing:border-box;display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-box-flex-wrap:wrap;-webkit-flex-wrap:wrap;-ms-flex-wrap:wrap;flex-wrap:w [BBB Scam Type: Identity Theft] [Business: Experian- Imposter] [Location: TX, USA- 77423]

1 day ago

Sent credit blocking requests and nothing has been blocked I sent all of the credit bureaus blocking request due to identity theft with proof of id, ftc report, and the FCRA info and nothing has been blocked by any of the bureaus. It’s been about 5 business days. Is there anything else I can do ?

1033 days ago3 upvotes

University was hacked Hi, My university, which never had good security (medical staff shared the personal records of students via normal email that got leaked, the accounting office accidentally broadcasted credit card numbers being read to the over the phone, etc) , was hacked and the SSN, addresses, names, and the other information of several students and their parents were obtained. What is the plan of action? I know to freeze credit is the first step (call the bureaus and undergo the process) . Should police reports be filed pre-emptively, can the school be asked to help in protective efforts, can they be sued?

1263 days ago4 upvotes

Question re: credit freezes & government accounts? I have a question for anyone here who's had their identity stolen, and might've enacted a credit freeze? (which I STRONGLY recommend you do with the 3 major credit bureaus if that unfortunately does happen to you). For those who don't know, when you implement a freeze, it makes it so that whenever you have a credit check done or open a new line of credit in your name-- like a new checking account, buying a car etc-- that you have to call in to those bureaus to temporarily lift that freeze. My question is though, does anyone know if there's some sort of exception made if it's like a government account? (and not an account with say a private institution, like a bank, automobile manufacturer, mortgage lender, etc). Reason I ask is that I recently had an acquaintance talk me into signing up for something called a Treasury Direct account where you purchase bonds from the government using a government (and no, I don't want this post to seem like a roundabout endorsement of these; honestly from my limited experience so far, it's been a real hassle, with very limited support available to answer questions etc). I was able to go online and open an account within minutes, entering my name, address, SSN etc, a banking account to buy from etc. However after doing so, in light of the freeze, it made me wonder: HOW was I able to do so so easily?? Why wasn't I contacted to see if this wasn't some attempt at fraud? It actually made me wonder if my credit freeze was indeed still in place/that I hadn't tried lifting it temporarily and they'd kept it open by mistake. Nonetheless, I was able to reach ONE of the bureaus (since it's practically impossible to get a live agent, chat with someone online, or email anyone directly with any of these bureaus to answer any questions), and they did indeed confirm that my credit freeze was still in place. Anyway, just thought I'd ask to see if anyone had any experience/knowledge of this, the

1414 days ago1 upvote

There is no hope. The identity thief hacked my accounts on TransUnion and Equifax! Years ago, I had experienced a lot of identity theft and I learned that freezing my credit reports with Equifax, TransUnion, Experian and ChexSystems was a good way of stopping them. I had these PIN numbers and everything that I kept secret. Two weeks ago, I get an alert on a credit card saying my information was updated (email and phone number). I immediately called to get my access back. That was just the start. Last week I get a letter from Discover Card saying my application was rejected due to my credit being frozen. That was expected. Today, I noticed 2 temporary passwords from password reset emails from TransUnion. I tried to log in and I couldn't. I tried to reset my password and I could not because the email was changed. I called in to get my account back and they confirmed my credit was no longer frozen. After I got that sorted out I checked Experian and Equifax. Equifax remained frozen but Experian was compromised and not only was my credit unfrozen, but I was already getting hard inquiries from banks for credit card applications. I updated my PIN with the person on the phone (because I couldn't do it online) but they basically told me there is nothing stopping the thief from coming in and unfreezing my credit again. Same for TransUnion. So those PINs are pointless, security questions are pointless. I have dude's phone number because he used it on several applications and also to get through 2FA on one of the accounts he stole. He's basically calling in and human hacking his way through the systems and he was able to get through TransUnion and Experian. Is this game over? I did the [IdentityTheft.org](https://IdentityTheft.org) thing, I've had active credit monitoring for years now. I've reported to the Bureaus that they were compromised and I refroze my credit. I did everything one can possibly do, but I had already done this years ago and today, they thief got throug

1558 days ago5 upvotes

Parents opened credit cards in my name I turned 18 a month ago. My parents confessed they have been using my name for credit cards. While I am angry I do not want my parents to go to jail. My question is how can I proceed to clean this up. They told me the payments went into delinquent status back in 2013. They haven’t touched it since then. In 2 years that will be 7 years and I can have it removed from my report. But my birthday is wrong and I want to apply for a secured card while waiting the 2 years. Is this possible to do without them getting in trouble? Can I tell the bureaus that my birthday is wrong or will they alert police? I know many of you will say turn them in, but I really don’t want to do that. My folks were pretty messed up back then and have finally got themselves together and are trying to right many wrongs. Jail is not an option. Just please tell me what I can do. Thanks

2677 days ago6 upvotes

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