Hmmm. I Just Got Extortion Spam

(((Not particularly dramatic, effective or well-spelled extortion spam, but it is extortion spam. A death threat, even. And straight from the New York Times.)))

From: [email protected]

Subject: Buy or DIE!!!

Date: May 24, 2008 8:35:21 AM PDT

To: [email protected]

Reply-To: [email protected] (((Pity I can't reply to the New York Times, as perhaps my somber little letter of complaint would see print on the op-ed page.)))

You computer was infected by our software!
If you will not buy our software - you will bee lost all data on your PC!

Buy our software bastards: xpantivirus.com

XP Antivirus.

(((That looks like a genuine badware site, still up and operative.
Presumably it's eagerly trying to hijack my browser right now, and that "free spyware scan" doesn't look very healthy.)))

(((I'm on a MacBook, losers. Come and get me.)))

Xpantivirus