Fake www.farmersonly.com account with my email address
Last week I received an email from Farmers Only, a dating website for rural people and their enthusiasts. The email was welcoming me to the site, which I did not join. Apparently someone had created a female account using my email address (I'm a man, I live in a city, I'm married, and I would never join Farmers Only -- no offense).
I did not click anything in the email, but I went to the website and went through the "Forgot Password" procedure. Sure enough, I got an email from them with instructions on how to update my password. I did that and requested that "my" profile be deleted.
My question is, why would someone create an account using my email address? And I guess a follow up question for Farmers Only is, why they would have created a profile without confirming the email address first? Is this a common scam?