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I thought it was spam. The email that hit my inbox Friday morning had the subject line “Twitter Receipt of Correspondence” and the sender was “Twitter Legal.”

At first glance, it looked just like those emails I get from banks I don’t have accounts with saying I’m owed money or some other nonsense.

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The whole thing seemed more absurd as I read on. “We are writing to inform you that Twitter has received official correspondence regarding your Twitter account, @anthonyfurey. The correspondence claims that the following content is in violation of Pakistan law: Section 37 of PECA-2016, Section 295 B and Section 295 C of the Pakistan penal code.”

It then included a link to what looked like one of my tweets. Should I click it? Could it redirect me to some virus?

Then the email continued: “Twitter has not taken any action on the reported content at this time. We are only writing to inform you that content posted to your account has been mentioned in a complaint.”