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Man Threatened Spam Attack In $200,000 Extortion Plot
52-year-old Anthony Digati was arrested for trying to extort $200,000 from an insurance firm by threatening to spam them with six million emails unless they paid up. Digati said he would use a spam service and his amazing talents as a "huge social networker" to drag the company "through the muddiest waters imaginable" and presumably unfriend everyone. He added that the price would increase to $3 million if they failed to pay up by Monday, according to federal authorities.
"That's an awfully nice looking email server you've got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it."
"This post contains words, known to the State of California to cause thought. Wash brain thoroughly after reading."
If I were the company, I would have hired him for PR and marketing department.
If you are about to mod me down, keep in mind that this post was most likely sarcastic.
I had a similar thing happen with CD of the month club. I dunno whats worse, paying them the money to quit hounding me about our "contract"... or owning a Nickleback CD.....
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Tuesday. In the morning. From 8:15 AM to 8:25 AM. On a slow day.
Seems kinda more "Doctor Evil" than actual evil, doesn't it?
"I demand.." [brings pinkie to lip] ".. one MILLION dollars."
[collective governments of the world laugh with relief]
"This post contains words, known to the State of California to cause thought. Wash brain thoroughly after reading."
Reminds me of those Somali pirates that decided it would be a good idea to try to hijack a French corvette. Once they started shooting the French said "Welp, okay" and blew them out of the water.
The dude did manage to drag the company through slashdot - there is no water muddier.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Dr. Evil: If you don't pay up we're going to send out... ...6 MILLION emails.
[pinky to corner of mouth]
Number Two: Don't you think we send out *more* than six million emails? Six million emails isn't exactly a lot of spam these days. Virtucon alone gets over 9 billion spam messages per day!