> > My name is also popular among college athletes, it seems. I always enter my middle name on forms, since my full name (without the middle name) is shared with maybe ten other women in this country. Two of my appelative doppelgangers used to live within ten miles of me in Pennsylvania.
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> > --Jez"Eleanor"zika
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> My dad's name is shared by 3 or 4 guys in our city, and a few even have his middle initial. It's a rather boring, commonish sounding name, but still. We get phone calls for the other ones occasionally, and the person calling has to describe the guy they're looking for before we figure out that we don't know them.
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> -flyi"I think you have the wrong Doug"ngcats

A local friend of mine was hit out of the blue with huge bills from all over the country, and the bank was furious with him. It took months to figure out that it was another man with the same first, middle, and last name, and the same Social Security Number, too! How a mess like that gets created is beyond me.

gab"talk about identity theft"by