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Someone from a portuguese speaking country thinks that your email address is theirs and that their password is not working and is trying to reset it. That seems to be what's happening here.

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Exactly. I get the same thing to an email address that is secondary on my account but someone else was able to create an account with at one point or another (the email being addressed to a name other than your own is the giveaway).

It's not anything evil, just some poor guy (in my case) who can no longer access his account and is trying to reset the password.

Agreed, but he's right in that a wrong contact name is worrisome. That said, it doesn't seem like it was changed in his account settings (at least he didn't mention it).

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