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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. "

6 of 193 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Go to jail by docyahoo · · Score: 0, Troll
    Looks like ZDNet is raising the bar on comments to TFA:
    Thier not hoodlums genius, i live like 20 minutes away from them. thier both straight a students with alot of computer expertise but were using thier skills in the wrong way and tried to make some illegal money off of myspace. Some people need to drop the "everyone from new york is a gangster" stereotype just like they tell us to drop the "anyone not from ny is a redneck" stereotype." Posted by: gtapro91
    And, with that eloquent statement, how could I say any more about my edukation dollars at work here in New Yawk. Please don't bother flamebaiting by blaming upstate.
  2. hacked myspace? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    someone should hack it to fix the stupid errors that you routinely get while using it and especially the problem when you're subscribed to someone's blog, then you leave myspace. myspace will not let you unsubscribe to that person's blog. you're supposed to unsubscribe before you delete your account. myspace customer service is worthless because when i've emailed them about it, they told me to login to my account and unsubscribe myself...

    I DONT HAVE A FUCKING ACCOUNT ANYMORE YOU FUCKING IDIOTS

    so every once in awhile, i'll forward an email about a new myspace blog post and change the subject to HELP A MAN IN HIS MID 30S IS TRYING TO GET ME TO RUN AWAY WITH HIM.

    still no reply..

    myspace is a worthless piece of garbage.

  3. Re:Go to jail by hutchy · · Score: 0, Troll

    And Ye shall be known by your atrocious grammer!

  4. Re:if the story is factual by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    He's a drug dealing piece of scum! He doesn't have any civil rights...

  5. Re:WTF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    horribly laid out on opera linux!!! what the hell does that mean? opera is a web brouser and linux is just a os wierdo..hmmmm look slashdot is on linux also! it must be a shitty site!!

  6. Re:WTF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh well, since they are geeks they will at least soon loose their virginity.

    Speaking of bad education... loose is the opposite of tight. Lose is the opposite of win. So unless you were trying to say that they would let their virginity free, may I suggest you buy yourself a fucking dictionary?