Hoping that someone can offer some advice, as I don't really have anyone to ask. This morning I received two emails purportedly from Gala Bingo. I've never been to one in person or looked them up online. Emails are addressed to "Helen", which isn't my name or anything like it. My email address is a nickname given to me by a friend I had decades ago and starts with the first few letters of my name, but then goes off on one to form a made-up word that I've never come across elsewhere, so it seems fairly unlikely that "Helen" has a similar address and has mistyped it.
The first message is a welcome and the second congratulates "Helen" on becoming verified as a customer. There doesn't appear to be a verification link in the first one and both emails were labelled as unread when I opened them, so I'm not sure if "Helen" has access to my emails, but I've changed the password and added two-step verification.
I don't know what to do about this bingo account that may or may not exist. I've googled and found some posts on various forums that advise people who've had similar to go to the relevant website, enter their email address and click "forgotten password", then change the password. And something about looking to see if a home address is given on the account, and if that matches their own. If it does, it obviously makes it look much more suspicious than accidental. Is that a good idea, and safe to do? I'm afraid of doing the wrong thing and leaving myself more vulnerable to the attempted scam, if that's what this is. I'm even afraid that I was too hasty in changing the password to my email account, and shouldn't have done that.
Or shall I just mark as spam (or not even do that!) and stop worrying about it?