tl;dr Don’t try to shake-down a typography nerd with your dubious, automated claims about his employer using unlicensed fonts. How it started It started with a LinkedIn InMail message (sanitised to protect privacy): Subject: [Urgent] Font Software Licensing Review Hi Ameel I hope you
Or in the present case, just never go to LinkedIn.
Just putting it here because they will spam the shit out of any domain registrar emails not hidden as well.
In this particular case, they were smart enough to actually have business emails on hand for the threat, knowing they’d never actually attempt to actually email this threat to any mail server as they would get filtered immediately.