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Teens Arrested in MySpace Extortion Scam
An anonymous reader writes "Two New York teens have been arrested after trying to extort $150,000 from the makers of MySpace, the popular online community site." From the article: " MySpace discovered the intrusion earlier this year and blocked it. The Los Angeles-based company also reported the incident to authorities. During the course of the investigation, threats were made that unless $150,000 was paid, new exploit code would be released, according to the statement. By this time, the sting operation had been set up, so instead of meeting with MySpace late last week, the pair from New York met with undercover officers from the U.S. Secret Service and the Los Angeles District Attorney's Bureau of Investigation. "
Well, I definitely have to say that I am not surprised about this one.
American kids thinking that they can get away with anything, interested solely in themselves, and getting something for nothing.
In the end, services like MySpace is one of the signs of the decline of society as a whole.
Look at it, people no longer care about privacy as they are publishing every single aspect of their daily lives for everyone to read about, including things like "My boyfriend dumped me today! I wanna die!"
Thirty four characters live here.
This is yet another example which shows that crime never pays!
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