To erroneously combine information about two different real people into a single record
It looks like this record is munged—it has this person's birth date, but his father's death date.
The act of disguising your email address so it cannot be deciphered or cannot easily be deciphered by a spammer Originally munging was intended to only make the address unusable by spammers who used programs to "harvest" email addresses on web sites or newsgroups Because some irresponsible abuse departments began giving spam complaints to the spammers and the spammers took to adverse actions like mailbombing, Denial of Service attacks, and even personal contact when they could munging is now a proper method to protect oneself from retaliation for exercising their right to state their displeasure at unwanted emails