All of this seems a bit dubious to me considering your previous description of having simply scraped and mass-emailed all the hiring managers on Crunchbase, and Apple employees don't (I don't think) tend to use icloud email addresses that they're comfortable publishing as a point of contact for a testimonial.
https://twitter.com/KareemAbukhadra/status/13280678353236254...
Is this just a funnel into that process or have you done something differently?