Im a woman and my email address is my name so its possible some weirdo is just reaching out . A better direction to go in than ' weirdo reaching out ' is ' person accidentally mistyping the email address of someone they know , ' especially if your name is common . Anyway , I ' m curious , too , and never very attached to my email accounts or concerned about getting spamscam emails in return for my curious ways . Meaning I ' d email back and if in the end that meant that I had to get a new email address or simply dodge an increased amount of spamscam emails , so be it . However , you could just create a new account perhaps even one with a similar name as your current one , I ' m on the fence about whether or not that ' s a beneficial addition and email the address back with a very generic response . You could even first hit reply to the email he sent you , copy and paste all the forward text to this new email from the new account , then change the details so it looks like this was the account he emailed initially . If he is just a scammer he won ' t really care about the specifics . If he is a real person , you can perhaps expect a very confused reply if any reply at all . No . I don ' t have a life . How can you tell ?