I had what I thought was a fairly unusual name but some debt collectors called me to try and collect a debt I didn’t owe. Since I didn’t have any debt at all they had to take another run at someone else who shares my name. Interesting...........
Oddly enough, having an “unusual” name is almost worse, because it makes it easy for anyone handling the situation to *assume* that you *must* be the right one. If your name was “John Smith” they would have to try to find the right one, but an unusual name makes them lazy (sometimes).