Also direct email addresses harvested from GitHub (sometimes) and apparently also investor relations. In some countries, if you're part of a retirement fund th

Also direct email addresses harvested from GitHub (sometimes) and apparently also investor relations. In some countries, if you're part of a retirement fund that owns stock in a company, you might get away with calling yourself an investor in a letter / email / phone call to investor relations. Nobody wants investors to be disgruntled, so if one asks for something and it's not a terrible imposition (think actually looking at a flagged customer instead of bouncing them from bot to script-following employee) many companies actually go for it and fulfill the request without much checking.