I didn’t but journos who send me such stuff often end up thinking they’d have an easier time trying to interview Vladimir Putin.
The company is legit but like most of them is run by middle aged folk with their heads stuck in the 1980s (although the person sending you the email is probably younger and an ambitious intern/freelancer; they are often from ethnic minorities and picked so they come across as “intelligent but streetwise”.
what these older lot seem to forget (or play down) is telly programmes are easily recorded and hoarded for decades and can be uploaded halfway across the world within seconds; and that makes it a lot easier to identify their participants.
The young journo isn’t lying nor are his/her bosses; but if you get into a “debate” on these shows you are up against extremely intelligent media savvy opponents who often genuinely don’t have anything to hide (and they’ve got the entire apparatus of the state behind them).
