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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. "

5 of 193 comments (clear)

  1. Extort by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hello.

    My name is Bajin Urhala. You probably don't know me but I want to tell you that unless you give me $50 USD I will release a worm that will bring down your network. Please send me your credit card. I live in sweden arabia and the ex-predident of the bank died and I must transfer some money to your account.

    Thank you and may god bless you.

    first post

  2. Re:Go to jail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What the hell are you talking about?

    This is Myspace, not Monopoly. Someone mod this offtopic.

  3. Re:Go to jail by linvir · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    This is yet another example which shows that crime never pays!

    In other news, 7391 shashdotters consider acquiring illegal software.

    What the fuck? I see your point, but you're just begging for Offtopic and Troll mods with something like that. If you're going to bitch about warez and insult Slashdotters, you need to be clever about it and only do it in stories about piracy.

    Besides that, your comparison is so incredibly unequal that I wonder if you even thought about it beyond "Hey, this'll sound real smart, and them shashdotters sure love to talk about the morality of warez!".

  4. Man..... by madnuke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They are so 1337, I wish I could be like that one day.... And why are the Secret Service helping My Space my tin foil hat is tingling with conspiracy theories....

  5. Re:Well that violation will happen later by localman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You are a strange one, son.