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My name is too common!

Growing up there was a girl a couple years older than me with the same first and last (maiden) name as me.  There was always confusion.  We banked at the same bank so I had to have my middle initial always on everything, etc.  

Well, today I get an email that was a response from a company to another person with my same first and last maiden name regarding her application with them.  Our email addresses are exactly the same except that she spells LindsEy with an "E" instead of an "A" like me.  Her resume was attached to the email.  Seems like a bad mistake on the company's part.   So I replied to the email and to her saying it came to the wrong person.

Thank goodness I changed my last name when I got married! 

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Re: My name is too common!

  • Yikes! Just be glad she doesn't have a warrant for her arrest or something. Ha!
  • Yikes that's crazy! What are the chances that you would share your name with someone else, and someone that lives in the same area as you do!
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  • There was someone with the same first and last name (different middle) as my mom that lived on our street, who also had the same birthday (different year), and her phone number was only one digit off of ours. We only got a couple random mix ups, but one of them was a criminal thing this other lady (not my mom, ha) was involved in, and it was really freaky and annoying.
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  • When I was in University I used to get lots of calls from Bill Collectors for the one girl.  I had to give them my social insurance number to get them to back off.  
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  • Wow - that other girl should be glad you're as honest and un-creepy as you are! I'd hate for someone to mistakenly have my info.

     

  • Wow, that's crazy. 

    My aunt and step mother have a similar problem. Both are Karen Lynne SameLastName... And the weird part is that they both bank at the same bank as a third Karen SameLastName who is no relation. And it's not like the last name they have is common.  

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  • imageJuddandJessica:
    Yikes! Just be glad she doesn't have a warrant for her arrest or something. Ha!

    THIS!!

    I have to admit, I like my name WAY better since I changed it, but it is a lot more common than my maiden name.

    Your maiden name is common up here too, and I actually do know someone by that name lol.  

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  • imageKate&Mark:

    Wow - that other girl should be glad you're as honest and un-creepy as you are! I'd hate for someone to mistakenly have my info.

     

    This! 

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  • How creepy! She should be happy you're honest and not going to use all her info for some identity fraud or something. As much as I love my new last name, it now makes my name more common, especially now that I have a French first name and last name, before my maiden name was so uncommon there was no one with it expect my family members and there aren't that many of them, there were less than 10 of us in the country. 
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  • My name is not incredibly common and yet I still went to school with someone with my same first and last name. There were only about 250 in my class so it was pretty strange. We still have mix ups since we're in the same profession. My brother also has a name twin who had lots of financial problems. That definitely sucked for him. 
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