Plenty Of Fish Emails

[RockKitteh]

I used to be a UK POF member about 3 years ago. About 6 months ago I suddenly started getting emails from "[email protected]" saying "here are your matches" with links to view my profile. The username in the email is not the one i was ever registered on POF with. When i search the username on POF it comes up with pictureless profile which has the right town for me, but the age is off by about 4 years, hair colour is not the same as mine etc. I came off POF because i met someone (outside of POF) and we've been happy together for just over two years. if i click the links in the email it doesn't open POF, or any other website. Is it possible POF have created a fake profile using my email address? Could it be one of my friends pranking me? I genuinely haven't used POF for more than 2 years, in fact, I deactivated my account when i met my partner. any ideas? it's friving me crazy! I definitely don't want my boyfriend thinking i've registered on a dating site, because I certainly haven't!

[Quizproquo]

It's spam.
Delete it, don't click anything and clean your computer with something like malawarebytes.

[Buenchico]

If you click a link in an odd email, and it doesn't appear to do anything, then it's highly likely that it's actually dumped malware onto your computer.

Run a full virus scan. Then run a scan with the free version of Malwarebytes:
https://www.malwarebytes.org/antimalware/
(NB: When installing it, ensure that you deselect the pre-ticked option to take a free trial of the Premium version).

Then, for completeness, use System Restore (from Start > Programs > Accessories >System Tools) to set your computer's registry back to a date before you opened those emails.

(The foregoing assumes that you opened the mail on a Windows computer. There's less of a risk if you opened them on, say, an Android tablet but it would still be worth running a scan with any security software you've got).