Jessica Rochon from Ottawa says she has always been good with her money, so she was floored to find out she and her wife had been denied a mortgage pre-approval because of someone else’s bad credit — a woman who lives a province away in Quebec with almost the same name.
The two Rochons are not related and have never met, but their Equifax credit history appears to have been mixed into one file, causing financial problems — and a lot of headaches — for the Ottawa Rochon.
She says her pristine credit score plummeted and there was a collection added to
