So it's been a while since I updated this story to be fair I realized there's only so much spreading awareness solves the actual problem of Fanfiction/Fictionpress getting better and keeping these bot accounts out but for a while since I had been working on Punch Out Fanfiction which wasn't as popular as TMNT Fanfics I felt for a while I was beneath notice but then I got a PM talking about Little Mac's Secret Friend once again in vague praise showing they don't actually read the fic which ticked me off enough to once again add a chapter to this protest story

So Jonathan knew he had to be very careful about how he worded this as he didn't want to reveal Buttercup and her friends and the fact they were Mutant Animals too soon…

"So...Edward…" Jonathan said with a wry smile as he was eagerly anticipating the Riddler's reaction "...I heard from a little bird…" (He could barely keep from chuckling as an earthbound pig is like the zoological opposite of a bird) "...That it seems your intellectual property specifically your riddle-coding for computers has been stolen…"
"What are you talking about…" Edward's voice was low and dangerous

And Jonathan proceeded to tell the tale about the SPAM email campaign on online artists and writers trying to scam money from them and attempts to trace these bot accounts to their source was blocked by Riddler's riddle-coding…

Jonathan held his phone some distance away from his ear as he heard Nygma scream "WHAT?!"

Edward on his part since he was much more tech savvy than Jonathan began searching the internet about this scam and sure enough there was plenty on message boards from various online creators complaining about these Spam-Scams! And Riddler himself followed them back to the source did indeed find these accounts were being protected by his riddle-coding! However since he created it he answered the obscure riddles with answers to questions only he knew all the while seething that someone had stolen some of his most precious work for such a petty scheme! For basically the online equivalent of telemarketing! And he discovered all these various bot accounts with thousands of false names were coming from Gotham City (Which would make sense given they had used his intellectual property...Riddler was immediately thinking about his previous henchmen having a feeling one of them sold it to someone who paid them off handsomely for their treachery)
He found this base of operations was coming from an old abandoned military bunker just outside of Gotham City Limits…

He reported what he just discovered to Jonathan however Riddler himself was suspicious of how this came to Jonathan's attention as the Scarecrow and Riddler were not particurally close among the Rogue's Gallery

"You're too much of a misanthrope to be much interested in what the young people are doing…" Riddler said "...So how do you know about this?"
Jonathan gulped "You're really not going to not let me answer?"
"I want to know who brought this to your attention...So I can personally thank them…"
Jonathan sighed "Well it was the most unusual of circumstances...I had come down with a terrible illness was bedridden...But fortunately a storm brought some teenagers into my hideout as they assumed it was just an abandoned house…"
"Go on…" Edward said

Short little chapter but now we got some concrete facts on the Scam Artists in this story