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A worrying scam backed up by an AI-generated website

I was momentarily thrown by this earlier today:

Dear owner of https://markcarrigan.net/2021/02/28/magical-voluntarism-i-got-this/,

I represent the Intellectual Property division. We have identified an
image belonging to our client on your website.

Image Details: https://i.imgur.com/zQo3F5t.png
Location of Usage: https://markcarrigan.net/2021/02/28/magical-voluntarism-i-got-this/

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Please add a direct and clickable hyperlink to https://www.bestonlinecasino.bet/zodiac-casino/
either beneath the image or in the footer of the page. This must be
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Please understand the seriousness of this request. Simply removing
the image will not suffice. If you do not comply within the given
timeframe, we will have to start legal proceedings under case No. 88739,
following the DMCA Section 512(c) guidelines.

For historical image usage, you can check the Wayback Machine at
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Trademark Attorney

Citi Legal
1 Beacon St 12th floor
Boston, MA 02108

anna@citilegal.site
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Until I realised the following:

  • This isn’t a DMCA takedown notice
  • If it was it would go to WordPress, not me
  • There’s no such thing as “case No. 88739”
  • I sourced that image from Unsplash
  • There’s no legal argument here
  • It’s not written as a legal letter
  • The domain name on the e-mail doesn’t match the website
  • Both domain names were registered in the last few months
  • The Boston law firm referred to has a domain registered in Iceland
  • The Boston law firm referred to has no independent public profile
  • Their website is full of AI generated text and images

It’s hard not to see this as a sign of things to come though.

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