Same here. Doesn't mean that some that tried their luck via email in the past didn't ask for money too, but those were classic beg bounties, "spray and pray" format...
I actually used a very annoying one for a slide in my "Basic Security for Open Source Maintainers" talk that I gave at PyCon Italia last month ^^
https://foosel.github.io/pyconit2026/#/9
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