I feel for you, sir.

I have had similar things happen to me:

- Someone named Tony in San Diego with Social Security Number digits very similar to mine showing up on my credit report. He had bad credit, so I was turned down for some things I shouldn't have been.

- Someone in Los Angeles having ADSL service, but the charges being put on my telephone bill. Note that I'm not only hundreds of miles from Los Angeles, but I'm also incapable of receiving DSL service at my location. Again, it was a one-digit-off error somewhere in the phone company's billing system. And yes, we did lose telephone service over it, and yes, it took months to sort out including the exact same sort of frustrating phone calls.

- Having to pay a medical bill that was completely covered by my insurance, but a digit error in the policy number the hospital keyed in prevented the insurance company from paying it. After enough wasted time trying to get them to correct it, we finally just broke down and payed it. We were purchasing property at the time and had to be certain it wouldn't show up on our credit report so that we could qualify for the loan.