Are you new in the internet? Have you not reset a password in any other website that you have signed up? In every website your registered, after the registration you will login and in the login page, you will see a link forget password and once you click it it will navigate you to another page where you will type your email and click send. Then the reset password link will be send your your email address which was used in registering in the website.
Op this your question is under investigation and it looks suspicious. Probably you are not asking this question because of this account but to hack account or to change a password of another account.
Your point of view is also considerable but I don't think we have to be that suspicious here, he might have lost his password, he might not see the forget password option while he is logged in, so that's why out of tension he asked directly here which is a good sign.
And speaking of hackers, and scammers, they do know how internet works, they do have the knowledge, so it is not like they created this thread just to get some golden hidden tips to hack into someone's account using password. I hope you understand +1 for you.