Your inbox fills with “Returned mail: user unknown”. And “Undeliverable Message”. Transcripts reveal that your efforts to reach a2j1@cxs.cxm and aboo21@xxs.cxm and meno2@hoonoz.nxt failed.

On review, you find that… why… You’ve been peddling anti-dysfunctionals! What’s going on?

A spamgang simply borrowed your address, along with your mail server’s MX records, so the sleaze could squeeze past other mail servers’ defenses. If the junkmeisters dumped enough spam in your name, they may even have earned you a slot on somebody’s blocklist.

Blocklists are full of innocent victims. Just like you. Which is yet another reason you don’t want to rely too heavily on them.

See for yourself at PCWorld.