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Like when the United States government laughed at Doctor Evil for requesting $1 million, Nick Hardwick took to Twitter to expose his inexperienced blackmailer for asking for pocket change.

The retired Charger posted the full blackmail letter he received that demanded a $7,650 payoff as a “confidentiality fee” in return for not revealing a supposed “secret” to friends, family and neighbors that would upset Hardwick’s wife.

“Wouldn’t you say it’s a little low on the asking price?” Hardwick mocked on Twitter.

In the tweet, the 36-year-old boasted that the letter’s author must not follow his Instagram, where his “whole life is documented.”

The letter gives Hardwick the options of ignoring the letter and facing the consequences of supposed damning evidence or paying the four-figure amount as compensation for what the incognito person describes as “time I put into investigating you.”

What a blackmail letter looks like…
Clearly he doesn’t follow my Instagram account. My whole life is documented.
And wouldn’t you say it’s a little low on the asking price? pic.twitter.com/4CqEIqgoav

— Nick Hardwick (@hardwina) June 6, 2018

“You don’t know me personally and nobody hired me to look into you. Nor did I go out looking to burn you,” the letter reads. “It is just your bad luck that I stumbled across your misadventures while working a job around San Diego. I then put in more time than I probably should have looking into your life. Frankly, I am ready to forget all about you and let you get on with your life.”

The anonymous sender warns Hardwick, who still resides in the San Diego area after retiring from the NFL in 2015, not to go to the police because doing so “won’t stop the evidence from destroying your life.” The letter’s conclusion clarifies that the purpose of the specific asking price is to spare the former center’s bank account.

A bank account that most recently includes income from a three-year, $13 million contract, $5.3 million signing bonus and $4.4 million annual salary would be pretty hard to “break.” Though the letter gives no indication of how Hardwick should pay the $7,650.

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