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by wpdb 504 days ago
mostly for phishing (if you're successful), to send e-mail looking like from you
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This sounds very plausible. Then if they click on their link or manually type in the website corresponding to the e-mail address, it goes to your (very official) site.

Of all the answers presented so far, this one feels the most plausible to me.