You are however free to ignore the collections attempts, and explaining the situation to them should cause them to drop it (my - admittedly very few - experienc

You are however free to ignore the collections attempts, and explaining the situation to them should cause them to drop it (my - admittedly very few - experiences with collections agencies all ended up with them dropping the debt once it was made clear to them it is not valid and that they got effectively scammed by whoever sold them the debt).