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Desperation at the New York Times




h/t Instapundit
Hmmm. I Just Got Extortion Spam
by Bruce Sterling

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: mrs@nytimes.com
Subject: Buy or DIE!!!
Date: May 24, 2008 8:35:21 AM PDT
To: bruces@well.com

Reply-To: mrs@nytimes.com
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.

No! Don't do it, Bruce! Don't give their subscription department any ideas!
You computer was infected by our software! If you will not buy our newspaper software - you will bee lost all data on your PC!
"you will bee lost all data" -- Ow! That'll sting.

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.
Posted by: Mike 2008-05-25
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=239941