In my AP last night, a spirit told me I was sent to him because he had the same name of someone I was looking for.

That is plausible, but the person I was searching for has a unique name and I'm not sure if there ever was anyone who shares the same name.

I can be too trusting sometimes and naïve, which I've been warned makes me vulnerable. This trait of mine can be "visible" to manipulators in the physical world... I wonder if I appear this way in the astral plane as well.

Do spirits lie? What can I do to protect myself?