No but, why wouldn't they contact you directly? Why go to a friend?
That's the thing here. It's... it's certainly very strange and it's kind of why I'm being sceptical here. Has this sort of thing ever happened before with Pokémon? Do we know these takedown notices are from Nintendo or TPCi or anything like that?
My friend was the one who posted the screenshots on facebook, claiming that he saw the text 2 weeks ago.
ie: He's the source of the screenshots. That's how I got the screenshots.
I doubt TPCi would directly contact people for that. Otherwise everyone knows it's real.
They probably would use proxy people.
Though that anonymous person could just be any random people trying to pull a prank on us.
Although I remember that PokeBeach was asked to take down stuff directly from TPCi, but those weren't "leaks", they were people who got the games early.
But look, I doubt I'd get into any trouble if the leaks are real-- I don't work for Pokemon or anything. I won't have any consequences.
However, I'd probably get into trouble if the leaks are fake -- my Smogon reputation. A lot of people may be angry at me, etc.