Reply #19: It wouldn't matter. You're screwed either way.

[Selatius]

Even if you went to the credit bureau and got them to correct the record, there is nothing stopping this third party debt collector from simply selling your discharged debt to yet another company, and this new company can again ruin your record by reporting its newly acquired debt as active, not dead, so you'd be forced to repeatedly correct the credit bureau because the companies are lying to it. You may have to go to court on both ends to stop the cycle.

Ultimately, I think this requires government intervention to end this market. This is one zombie that needs a bullet in its head to put it down permanently.