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What does it mean when a collection agency flags your account?
From a consumer perspective, a red flag is a warning that something suspicious or negative may have happened on an individual’s credit report. This may be a sign of fraudulent activity. Creditors have to follow the FTC’s Red Flags Rule to try to identify, manage and avoid these flags.
What happens when you flag a post on Whisper?
When a post is hidden by flags, users are given the opportunity to edit them. If the post author edits the flagged post, the post is un-hidden. The post remains in the review queue for eventual moderator review, but is visible as usual to users again.
What does it mean when an account is flagged?
The flag status is used to alert you to any suspicious transactions on your account. Not every flagged payment is fraudulent, but flags indicate that a payment is worth investigating. When a payment is flagged, you must either capture or void it manually.
Can you track someone on Whisper?
Whisper does not collect nor store any personally identifiable information from users and is anonymous. There is nothing in our geolocation data that can be tied to an individual user and a user’s anonymity is never compromised. Whisper does not follow or track users.
How does your bank account get flagged?
Types of Red Flags Red flags can indicate identity theft, but the signs that financial institutions look for fall into five main groups: notices from reporting agencies, unusual account activity, suspicious personal ID, suspicious documents and alerts from law enforcement or the public.
When does a disputed flag need to be used?
A disputed flag is whenever your flag was dismissed as neither helpful nor declined, or that your flag was reviewed but no conclusive action was taken. This is intended for use in cases where the validity of a flag is ambiguous. Currently, the following scenarios result in a flag being disputed:
What happens if you flag a flag as VLQ?
Having too many declined flags leads to a warning, or even a temporary flag ban. Disputed flag: When you flag an answer as NAA or VLQ and the result is ‘Looks OK’ from the Low Quality Posts review queue, the flag is disputed.
Can a NAA flag be declined by a moderator?
NAA and VLQ flags can be declined by moderators when the flag escalates to the moderator flag queue (but if handled in the review queue, these flags are only disputed). Having too many declined flags leads to a warning, or even a temporary flag ban.
What happens if your credit dispute is flagged as frivolous?
Having your dispute flagged as frivolous can be a HUGE hurdle to overcome. It means that you have filed so many disputes that they feel you are just trying to do a “blanket clean” and they won’t waste the man power with your disputes anymore.