That is exactly what occurred to me. I changed my phone number, and I continued to get the phone calls. They followed me to a new number! I still to this day, (and this has been going on for 3 years) can’t get a single one of these scumbags to explain to me why they think I am connected to “Juan Garcia”.
It is very trying. When I first received my cell number from work - I received a couple, but fortunately, they were few, and the people with whom I spoke were very polite and removed my number. I don’t think there are many like that though.
After eight years I am still getting calls for “Mrs. Adams”.
I’ve never had anyone threaten me or disbelieve me, though, thank God. But I’ve gotten a fair number of calls. Got two just last week.