No, they were real. It was a Mossad blackmail operation. It actually speaks to the truth of the conservative anti-women's suffrage activists of the 1800s/early 1900s who predicted that letting feminists hike the age of consent would lead to blackmail. Same activists also said that women's suffrage would lead to more sexual immorality, contradicting the feminists & being vindicated yet again by the modern empirical evidence.