Man Threatened Spam Attack In $200,000 Extortion Plot 77
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.
amazing. (Score:2, Interesting)
cops are actually taking action. i had a similar incident take place and the cops could not be bothered.
Re:Target selection FAIL (Score:3, 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.
Extortion or Blackmail? (Score:3, Interesting)
If the "smear" consists of truthful but disparaging statements, it would fall within the bounds of free speech.