http://www.csoonline.com/read/050105/extortion.html
*A lot of corroborative detail in this account;
I'm inclined to believe that this is pretty much
the story, from the victim's point of view.
*Now I wonder about the Russian extortionists.
Given that they are Russian hacker dweebs,
I wonder if maybe some real hard-boys from
the Mafia aren't further extorting these actions
from them; like, maybe they need that eGold or
Mom gets her head bashed in.
*Because then we'd have a real ecosystem of
electronic misery:
*Illegal gamblers with an online jones;
*Offshore Costa Rican hustlers;
*Russian hacker creeps;
*Professional organized multinational crime.
*The best part would be if the Russian mafiosi
were gambling away all their illegal profits
as slaves to online gambling.
