Cellphone mystery: wrong number, but they have my name. What's going on?

Cellphone mystery: wrong number, but they have my name. What's going on?
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I don’t know how it happens, but a similar thing happened to me recently. I ended up jumping through hoops to get the number blocked from calling and texting me. Unfortunately in my situation it was a young girl (very young), and she just did not believe that I was not the same person she was looking for, simply because we had the same name. When we actually spoke on the phone, rather than texting, she thought that I had put my mother on the phone and still didn’t believe that I wasn’t the person she was trying to harass. Very frustrating. Did all of the different numbers refer to you by name?
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