Dealers are in essence veiwed as financial institutions. They are required to check the OFAC database. If they don't have any other solution to check the consumer's name against the database, then they may deem it necessary to actually pull the consumer credit file as our data subscriber reports have built in matching for the OFAC database.
from Equifax
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COMPLIANCE DATA CENTER, INC.
*NO MATCH FOUND IN CDC'S OFAC DATABASE.
* END OF REPORT, COMPLIANCE DATA CENTER, INC.
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