State: FL
We recently pulled my wife's 3 bureau credit report because we got it through a free offer. I notice that on the Experian, there is one collection from RJM for $77 and on Equifax there is a collection from America's Recovery N for $175.
Both of these have been on the report for at least a year. I know that if I ask for validation within 30 days of receiving the first notice of collections they have to respond back in 30 days. However, we have never received any correspondence from either collection agency. To make matters worse, we called RJM to have them look it up, and they could not find my wife's account! I told them if it didn't exist they should stop reporting it. They told me if they can't find it, how could they stop, so I have to dispute it. I disputed it with Experian, and they came back and said they verified the debt.
I haven't done anything with the Equifax debt. I'm 6 months from graduating and don't want to attract attention to myself while I still have no money.
I've been reading around and now I can't figure out what my wife's rights are or how we can get this off her report. We are pretty much 100% this is not ours. But we have no proof that it isn't ours since it isn't ours (if that makes any sense).
Any advice?

