Same thing happened to me 20 years ago. I had to hire a lawyer to clear it up.
Databases are all but worthless these days with so many agencies, organizations and companies able to add info to them. No cross checking by anyone for accuracy.
Will only get worse.
Back in 1997, a girlfriend ran an amateurish background check on me and found a similar name (different middle name) belonging to a later convicted member of Aryan Nation and a child molester. The witch caused a lot of damage.
A guy with the same name as mine and living 250 miles away caused me all kinds of grief. He had been bouncing checks and running other scams. I could not write a check anywhere.
What do background checks matter anyway?
Barack Hussein Ubama did not undergo background checks to confirm his social security numberS, his college transcripts, his citizenship “reclamation” after becoming an Indonesian citizen, his past association with a KNOWN terrorist traitor named Bill Ayers, his 20 year history with a black separatist bigot, his...
It doesn’t help if you have a fairly common name, either. How many Kevin Joneses are there?