They wanted me to respond to the email and "chat" and hoping I would be able to show them around town, and maybe fill them in on the wonderful things this part of the state has to offer.

REally bizzare. Its clearly a new type of scam and I am not falling for it. It came thru on my junk email account that I use for things like facebook, or social places on the internet. I guess if you were to let your defenses down for a stranger in town, then share your phone, or address and agree to go pick them up, and while you were gone, your house gets robbed! or it just introduces a virus onto your computer and ruins your hard drive.

Either way, im not falling for it, and I threw it away. Now I am running virus scans on my machine.