The AI isn't vindictive. It can't think. It's following the example of people, who in general are vindictive.

Please stop personifying the clankers

You’re splitting hairs, I’m not assigning sentience to the AI, I’m just describing actions.

The point is that scammers will set up AI systems to attack in this way. Scammers will instruct AI to see a person who is interacting rather than ignoring as a warm lead.