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Fighting Online Extortion

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the more-common-than-we-think dept.

prostoalex writes "Information Week talks about those mornings, when an owner of an online business receives an e-mail message with his customer accounts and other personal information quoted, and extortionist asking for certain amount of money to be transferred to a foreign bank. Although 70% of the businesses surveyed for the article claim they never had to deal with extortion on the Internet, the article claims those small businesses who think they are not interesting for extortionists, are in for a surprise."

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  1. Who you gonna call? by b1scuit · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Who would a person call if they had some problems like this?

    The ghostbusters.

    Obviously.

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