Posted on 10/27/2014 8:38:17 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
PRAGUE, Czech Republic – Blackmailers are threatening to spread Ebola in the Czech Republic unless Prague pays them a million euros' worth of the virtual Bitcoin currency, police said Monday, October 27.
An e-mail allegedly from the blackmailers claiming they had "biological material" from an infected patient in Liberia was published by the country's top commercial TV station, TV Nova, on Monday.
"An unknown perpetrator or perpetrators are blackmailing this state, threatening to spread the Ebola virus," the country's deputy police chief Zdenek Laube told reporters.
"From the very beginning these culprits have been seeking to spread panic, which is their primary goal," he added.
The blackmailers demanded one million euros ($1.27 million) in the virtual Bitcoin currency, payable in three installments, reports said.
The interior ministry said in a statement that "the culprit or culprits are using very sophisticated communication methods," without elaborating....
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That isn’t blackmail, that’s extortion.
When I threaten to expose the extortionists if they don’t pay me a whole bunch of bytecoin — now THAT would be blackmail.
oh this is a wonderful “cultural” sidebar I must say.
hmmmm where are the jihadists on this?
Pay them and next time it will be 10 million.
Oh please don’t get them involved. Fortunately (if you can say it) this germ is so much worse than even anthrax, that few would want to play around with it.
Not plane nor bird nor even frog...
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Yep.
Words used to actually have definitions.
5 kids, then all the kids on the planet.
*channeling Torchwood*
Nuke Mecca and Medina, followed by Tehran.
Then tell the Koranimals we have declared an open season on Muslims.
They will be vewy,vewwy quiet.
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!"
perhaps they might accidently infect....themselves...and wipe out the entire membership of ISIS....HAMAS....the Taliban...and the Muslim Brotherhood?
Well, that didn’t take long...
Ironic. :) /sarc
I think I know who to look for.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks for the ping!
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