On: “I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”

[qeternity]

Or as law enforcement call it: parallel construction.

The sales rep was probably expected to reach out claiming some other reason, making it look like the standard LinkedIn spam, but in reality much more targeted.

[SilasX → qeternity]

Yep, and the purported “retraining” will probably be more like, “use a vaguer or falser pretense to cold-call”.