The instance in question was practically dead before this stupid thread gave it attention.
I’ll bet you money that concerned user didn’t exist 3 day ago.
Instance admins should learn how to be smarter, and not give manipulators small wins, alas, they will come back for bigger ones.
Neither the person who contacted you was a real user of that instance, nor their “concern” was legitimate.
Congrats. You got successfully manipulated. And opened yourself up for further future manipulations.
This is like the worst example possible, considering Aaron himself was rich, which should tell you the obvious, that being rich was never a sole differentiator.
But that might be too disruptive to the current echo chamber.