Collections agency pulled my credit before they posted a deliquency

I love your blog. It is so refreshing to get down to earth credit advice. My question is - I have some unapid medical bills. One of the collections agencies recently made an inquiry to my credit report before they posted a deliquency. Why do they do that?
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That is totally illegal
threaten suit and allow no respinse other than total removal they do this normally to find out new addresses
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Well the strange thing is that I have not been contacted by any of them. One of them did post a new credit ding for $800 for which I have no idea what it is and will be sending them a verification. The others I have heard nothing from and havent posted anything to my report. I am thinking the inquiries are hurting my score though since there are about 10 of them from different companies. When you say it't illegal should I dispute it with the bureaus or the company themselves?
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dispute it with the company themselves
and threaten suit if the account is not totally removed due to their illegal activity of pulling your credit report fishing for addresses

If you did not authorize the inquiries. This a is violation of the fair credit reporting act.Excersise you stautory rights

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