<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of the New York Post at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2014/04/11/man-with-first-name-god-runs-into-credit-rating-issues/">http://nypost.com/2014/04/11/man-with-first-name-god-runs-into-credit-rating-issues/</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div><h1 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; clear: both;"><a href="http://nypost.com/2014/04/11/man-with-first-name-god-runs-into-credit-rating-issues/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" size="3">Man with first name ‘God’ runs into credit-rating issues</font></a></h1><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Brooklyn businessman is suing the credit-reporting agency Equifax for falsely reporting him as having no financial history because their system rejects his first name — God.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">God Gazarov — a Russian native who was named after his grandfather — claims that the company has stubbornly refused to correct the glitch after more than two years of anguished calls and correspondence, according to a Brooklyn federal lawsuit to be filed Friday.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Despite having scores of more than 720 with the two other major credit agencies, TransUnion and Experian, Gazarov said the Equifax snag prevented him from purchasing an Infiniti car last year.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It’s extremely frustrating,” Gazarov told The Post. “I worked hard to get good credit to look good to lenders and this happens.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The owner of a Brighton Beach jewelry store and a graduate of Brooklyn College, Gazarov, 26, said an Equifax customer-service representative had the gall to suggest that he change his first name to resolve the issue.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gazarov was forced to file a lawsuit against the company because it refused to accept his name as legitimate, said his attorney, James Fishman, of Fishman & Mallon.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Equifax did not return calls or e-mails seeking comment on the case.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">God Gazarov, who is suing a creditor for not accepting his first name as a valid name, stands in front of his Coney Island Avenue shop in Brooklyn on Thursday, April 10.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="post-modal-image simplemodal-data" src="http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/god.jpg" id="simplemodal-data" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-height: 100%; max-width: 100%; height: 191.952px; 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