IT pilot fish receives a misaddressed email that’s not just the usual spam or phishing attack — this one is more than a little disturbing.

“My personal domain is configured so that email for any ‘user’ that doesn’t actually exist will go into a special account,” says fish. “As a result, I get some interesting misaddressed emails. Most of the time I ignore them; sometimes I respond to the senders noting their mistake.

“But this email was quite shocking — it contain an animated GIF cartoon sent from someone at one bank to a friend at a different bank, a pornographic version of a Disney cartoon that, if it contained real actors, would certainly qualify as illegal.”

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