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Teens Arrested in MySpace Extortion Scam

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-the-brightest-criminals-ever dept.

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. "

8 of 193 comments (clear)

  1. A MySpace exploit? Oh noes! by autophile · · Score: 5, Funny
    I feel a disturbance in My Space... as if a million preteen girls all shouted "OMG, poniez!" at once.

    --Rob

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    1. Re:A MySpace exploit? Oh noes! by Meagermanx · · Score: 5, Funny

      Shows what you know. Preteen girls don't use commas.

  2. Sucks to be them... by jonoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I were them I wouldn't be worried about the press publishing my name in connection with extortion, I'd be more embarassed about people finding out I was involved with MySpace.

  3. Have these guys never seen a movie? by llZENll · · Score: 5, Funny

    Come on now, a job interview? Don't they know the way a transaction like this goes down is on the docks at night (when its foggy of course). The guy drops the money off in a breifcase, then you zoom by on a motorcycle with a hot chick on the back who picks it up as you fly by at 80mph in black leather jumpsuits.... ...oh I see where the plan fell through, being old enough to reach the shifter on the motorcycle, and knowing a hot chick.

  4. Death sentence an option? by a_greer2005 · · Score: 5, Funny
    They had an opprotunity to take down the most annoying site in the history of the internet and the greedy bastards didnt pull the trigger? HANG 'EM!

    The abouve comment is a joke...laugh...

  5. Heh by Hawthorne01 · · Score: 5, Funny
    And this was posted right above an article about how science learning was down in U.S. schools.

    Coincidence? ;-)

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  6. Welcome! by Lip · · Score: 5, Funny

    Welcome to MyJailSpace.com!

  7. Re:if the story is factual by suffe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you insane? Not only did you Read The Fucking Article, you read another fucking article on top of that. Who are you and what are you doing on Slashdot?!

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