Start up screen bringing up a random email

Like many other people, to install iOS 8, I had to free up some space. To do this I decided to back up my iPhone, erase everything on it, install iOS 8 and then restore my phone.
Upon restoring, it asked me to sign into my account, which was successful, but the next screen then asked me to sign in to get hold of my previous purchases from the Appstore and iTunes. The strangest bit about this, is that it said: "Sign in to your account billybobzhou[at]gmail.com to access your recent purchases" That is not my email, nor an email I am familiar with. My iPhone isn't second hand either. Why did this strange email come up?! This has genuinely freaked me out because I've never experienced this before!
After my iPhone had restored, nothing else has changed. I'm just really concerned about this strange email that popped up.
Thank you.

I've subsequently tried a number of things. I reset the SMU, which didn't help until I also reset the PRAM. Computer booted normally. I rebooted from the Tiger DVD and repaired the start up disk; there were only two small errors to be fixed. The machine booted normally (and pretty quickly) for about a week before the problem resurfaced. I again went through the first two steps and got things working once more.
Lately the problem has returned. First, resetting the PRAM didn't help; only resetting the SMU worked. At the last event I needed to reset the PRAM without resetting the SMU. When I get home tonight I'll try booting from the DVD and repairing the permissions on the start up drive.
At first, I thought I'd leave it running all night, but when I got to the office in the morning the fans were running at full throttle and the machine was in a coma. All I could do was reboot--which it did, immediately going into kernel panic. I shut it down and rebooted, resetting the PRAM in the process. The computer booted and ran fine all day, although it seems slow (I did have Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom running simultaneously, but I do have 5 GB of RAM).
It's been suggested I may have a corrupt RAM chip (computer doesn't chirp at me, as I'm told it would) or, more terrifying, a processor is about to check out. I also have an ATTO SCSI card in this to run a legacy scanner. Could that be a problem?
Any advice?
JP

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