The most common found errors in free credit report are; wrong entry of names or accounts, prolonged presence of entries as over seven or ten years, wrong dates and wrong categorization of accounts. Some of the mistakes may have not effect on the overall credit scores in the short run as dates while other will adverse affect it as the wrong accounts and prolonged inclusion or charge offs. In the case of wrong names entered in your report you will find some entries which belongs to another consumer hence your credit score is wrongly defamed.
Some negative entries as late payments, bankruptcy and missed payments have a time limit or between, seven to ten years t appear in the credit report hence sometime the reporting company forgets to remove them after the period lapses. This still gives you report the wrong impression hence needs to be corrected immediately.
If the entries made on the report are not correct it means that the negative entries will stay longer in the report than supposed to. So if the entries dates are erroneous it is right that you move to correct them through filing disputes or complaint. Also if the names are misspelled or wrongly written the chances are that the credit report you are given belongs to someone else hence you need to get yours. Sometimes you identifications as social security number may be wrong hence the effect is same as above. Always check the report keenly to see the names used, the identifiers and the entries that are in it.
