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How do he know these emails are from scammers? Some of these seem like legimate offers at the first glance. Please don't downvote if this is a stupid question for you. I'd really like to know how to recognize a scam email in these situations as a browser extension dev.

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I believe the "scammer" parts comes from them wanting to leech data off the users of the given extensions. They are upfront about their intentions, I think, so scammer is maybe not the appropriate term. "Scummer" maybe.

It seems like it is a series of emails from one sender. The first email is about sharing users IPs. What can such scammer do with user IP?

They want to leech bandwidth off the userbase which become 'bots', to resell as a distributed proxy/botnet service from my understanding at least.

I agree with calling them “scummers” but “scammers” is also apt as they intend to scam the user of the extension - not necessarily the developer. Reading those emails brought to mind Bill Hicks' famous rant about “Satan's little helpers”: https://vimeo.com/36651896

I just added another email I got that I forgot about. In that one, they it looks like they steal the user's request headers. Their website also disappeared a month after their email.

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