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To: SI Dmitry (code monkey) who wrote (12227)9/29/2017 10:28:57 AM
From: geoffrey Wren  Read Replies (1) of 12465
 
Some years ago it was common for porn sites to file actual lawsuits, get ISP's of downloaders of pirated materials, then serve a summons, demanding nice tidy sums. Really a shakedown, but at core there was a real lawsuit filed and a real defendant who may or may not have been downloading some pirated materials even if the demanded damages were absurd and more like blackmail than a real claim.

This I think is more like the IRS phone calls. They send this to millions and millions of emails, and if someone responds of course they too will demand a nice tidy sum to settle. But there is no lawsuit to settle; nothing resembling a real claim. Strictly a scam is my guess.

But it is odd. Maybe someone is trying to claim something, but is very confused about how to make it or who to make it on.
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