Someone with the surname, "Travis", once attended a Computer Software conference. The form he had to fill out to obtain his name tag / security badge had a row of thirty or so boxes for the surname, and thinking that "Travis" looked a bit lonely on the left hand side of this array, he centred and spaced his name (as 'T', space, 'R', space, etc).

He was issued with a name tag that identified him as "Mr. 0T0r0a0v0i0s0". The character recognition software had put zeroes in the blank spaces.

It might be worse. Someone was once asked on an insurance form, the cause of an accident. He wrote, "Act of God". In due course a letter was dispatched to Mr. Act of God ... Another version of that story is that the form was for a marine insurance claim, and hordes of clerks were searching Lloyd's Register for a ship of that name.