Getting all the paperwork in order

So I'm in the middle of starting a new freelance gig, and we're in the getting-all-the-paperwork-in-order phase, so when I got an email this afternoon asking about getting the paperwork in order for starting a new freelance gig with a company I've never heard of it took me an extra long time to realize that it was in fact intended for a completely different Daniel Beck.

Trufax guys, I was seriously tempted to just play along and see how far into the job I could get before anyone realized I was not who they thought they were hiring. I srsly think I could maybe have pulled it off, it would have been a little bit of a stretch, but I could totally learn python if someone was paying me to

AND ALSO why are so many people named Daniel Beck software developers? I mean really, it's just implausible. Besides this guy and me I know of at least one in Brazil and another in Germany (because over the years I've received mail meant for each of them, because I have the firstname.lastname@gmail address and they don't.) Is it that common a name? Does something about it draw people towards algorithms? Are our simulitarian overlords just being lazy? EXPLAIN