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Man Threatened Spam Attack In $200,000 Extortion Plot

Posted by samzenpus on from the can't-believe-this-didn't-work dept.

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.

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  1. amazing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    cops are actually taking action. i had a similar incident take place and the cops could not be bothered.

  2. Re:Target selection FAIL by wizardforce · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Some plans are so foolish that it makes you wonder if there's actual brain damage involved. For one thing, even if his original plan worked, he'd still be a million in the hole and two, there's no way to hide something like that from the authorities for any amount of time.

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  3. Extortion or Blackmail? by srussia · · Score: 2, Interesting
    TFA as opposed to TFS says "threatening to smear it with a spam attack of six million emails".

    If the "smear" consists of truthful but disparaging statements, it would fall within the bounds of free speech.

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