How do you think they got your email to begin with?
they didnt get his email. it was a forum inbox message
these things happen alot. in the past it has been found that scammers prep their list of 'marks' by asking forum topic questions such as:
"how much bitcoin do you own"
"what wallet software do you use"
etc
these info gathering games are what scammers do to target the right people. after all there is no point phishing someone if they only have satoshi dust to their name. and theres no point entering into conversation with them to tempt them to download trojans if the scammers code is not compatible with the victims wallet.
so usually scam emails and private messages are targetted to the victim, because the victim has made some form of admission that he is worthy of being scammed. either admitting wealth, admitting he runs a wallet that is compatable to a certain tojan or the fact that the victim admits to not have 2FA on their other logins or lastly, they have been scammed before so are proving to be an easy 'mark'
This was sent to my email account associated with my bitcointalk account.
I had my email not hidden, so I set it to hidden now. I agree that it was a targetted email, because my email was published and my bitcoin address has a decent balance which is also visible on my account.