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"someone who might get irrationally upset when you did not give them what you wanted"

Like the police in India?

I would assume that the actual police have their own traditional methods of being irrationally vindictive, and would not normally restort to DDoS.

Indian police will have a lot of trouble beating you if you live in another country.

Their government might though..

Google Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Still a lot of trouble.

Those traditional methods don't often work very well across borders like a DDoS does. The post at the top of the thread didn't state whether or not they were based in India too.

Yes we went through a bit of procedure to establish that. They have also been in touch with the authorities in our jurisdiction since.

In fact we were contacted by multiple police authorities from different regions.

Agreed, I've been through something like this before and it was not legit. They'd compromised a Bangladeshi police email account and used it to try to get data out of us.