Be glad that other guy doesn’t have a criminal record.
I had a client who moved to MO recently and couldn’t land a job, even though he had an excellent work history. Someone at one of the employers who rejected him hinted that there was an issue with his criminal history, so he paid a service to run a criminal records search. Turns out there’s a man in Indiana with the same first, middle, and last names, and the same date of birth. The guy in Indiana has done prison time, and his convictions show up on my client’s record. My client has never lived in Indiana.
Thankfully, the two men’s Social Security numbers have not gotten mixed up, but that’s cold comfort for my client when the background checking services don’t pay attention to these things.
Never occurred to me to check criminal records.
So far that hasn’t been an issue, but you never know.