posted on Monday, March 22, 2004 10:57 PM
by
demiliani
Idiots of the month????
This notice is really ridiculous...
Today Michael Bradley, a California man, has been charged with extortion after allegedly making demands for $100,000 from search giant Google.
He has developed a software to flood the Google advertisements with fake clicks, potentially costing the company millions of dollars. He advice Google that if they did not pay, he would release his software to spammers to generate fake advertising hits. The ridiculous part is that he was so sure that the folks at Google would pay up, so he even turned up at their offices for a meeting to sell his software. So, what's the end of this story? Federal law enforcement agents were already on the case and videotaped the alleged extortion attempt.
Good luck man... :)