Consumer Finance Protection Bureau Posts Complaints on its Blog

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | March 22, 2015

No. 1128

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has been touting the Complaint Department on its Blog. 

They encourage consumers to tell their story and promise to forward the matter to the company involved and to give status updates. CFPB has been logging in complaints since July 2011 and says that there are hundreds of thousands of them. (Actually, there are 364,684 of them as of 8 AM on March 22, 2015.)

But don’t get too excited.  The CFPB didn’t publish 364,684 juicy stories.  Its a database and individual entries look (in part) like this:

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