Got a bunch of 'password reset' emails yesterday for this very account, I'm assuming they're malicious. What would anyone stand to gain any HN acct let alone my worthless acct?
They want your 1 karma! Usually this happens when someone thinks that is their username and then they think the email is not being delivered so they keep trying.
Could simply be someone with the same name. Not many people in the US have my name but someone in another country does, and I see when they try to reset their iphone using my name for the apple account. They have the gmail address. We should trade accounts!