So I just got into NameCoins b/c my mining pool is now also issuing those. I went to register at a namecoin exchange and got an error that my email was already in use. Weird, i thought, but I guess I could have set up an account without remembering it. I went to retrieve my password and logged into the account without problem (it was a password reset so I have no idea if it's one of my typical passwords or not). Funny thing is that once I logged in, there were BTC there and NMC and all sorts of other currency there that I have no recollection of putting there. We're talking a pretty big amount, even if it was from a decade ago when I dabbled in BTC and then forgot about it, there is no way I had that many. We're off by a few orders of magnitude.
I figured that they were accidentally transmitted to a wrong address or something, but since BTC is untraceable, how do I return this money?
There is one more possibility, which is someone used my email address to signup for an account. The email I use for this account is something very generic, like
bob@yahoo.com (not actually it, but as an example). Could this actually be an active account that someone is using with a fake email address?
What do I do here?