Answers.Body: <p>What is the default unsupervised dedupe rule you have? it should probably have first+last+email if you want to be on the safe side and avoid incorrect merging</p>
  
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Body: <p>One of my users created a petition: Both he and I responded and it appended our responses to the wrong records. I wasn’t logged in and it tried to write to an {surname matching mine]. I suspect that this is the first A. Ross and it is only matching surnames. It appends my data to the existing record.</p>
  
  <p>I just re-submitted my petition signature and it over wrote it again...
  Re-submitted petition after changes - Logging Details</p>
  
  <pre><code>Top of Form
  Change to Mrs Peter Ross made by on 2015-12-14 10:00:03:
  
  Field
  Changed From
  Changed To
  Sort Name (id: 1945)
  Ross, Alison
  Ross, Peter
  Display Name (id: 1945)
  Mrs Alison Ross
  Mrs Peter Ross
  First Name (id: 1945)
  Alison
  Peter
  Modified Date (id: 1945)
  2015-12-14 09:15:43
  2015-12-14 10:00:03
  Source Record (id: 1375)
  7
  Activity Type ID (id: 1375)
  Petition Signature
  Subject (id: 1375)
  Petition to xxx xxx
  Activity Date (id: 1375)
  2015-12-14 09:58:53
  Activity Status (id: 1375)
  Completed
  Priority (id: 1375)
  Normal
  Test (id: 1375)
  false
  Auto (id: 1375)
  false
  Is this activity a current revision in versioning chain? (id: 1375)
  true
  Activity is in the Trash (id: 1375)
  false
  Campaign (id: 1375)
  12
  </code></pre>
  
Tags: <issues>
Title: Highly unusual matching error
ThreadText: # Highly unusual matching error
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-12-14)
  
  One of my users created a petition: Both he and I responded and it appended our responses to the wrong records. I wasn’t logged in and it tried to write to an {surname matching mine]. I suspect that this is the first A. Ross and it is only matching surnames. It appends my data to the existing record.
  I just re-submitted my petition signature and it over wrote it again...
  Re-submitted petition after changes - Logging Details
  Top of Form
  Change to Mrs Peter Ross made by on 2015-12-14 10:00:03:
  
  Field
  Changed From
  Changed To
  Sort Name (id: 1945)
  Ross, Alison
  Ross, Peter
  Display Name (id: 1945)
  Mrs Alison Ross
  Mrs Peter Ross
  First Name (id: 1945)
  Alison
  Peter
  Modified Date (id: 1945)
  2015-12-14 09:15:43
  2015-12-14 10:00:03
  Source Record (id: 1375)
  7
  Activity Type ID (id: 1375)
  Petition Signature
  Subject (id: 1375)
  Petition to xxx xxx
  Activity Date (id: 1375)
  2015-12-14 09:58:53
  Activity Status (id: 1375)
  Completed
  Priority (id: 1375)
  Normal
  Test (id: 1375)
  false
  Auto (id: 1375)
  false
  Is this activity a current revision in versioning chain? (id: 1375)
  true
  Activity is in the Trash (id: 1375)
  false
  Campaign (id: 1375)
  12
  
  **Tags:** issues
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-12-15. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  What is the default unsupervised dedupe rule you have? it should probably have first+last+email if you want to be on the safe side and avoid incorrect merging
  
  
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