IM extortion

I was just going to add this to whatthe's IM thread but I see it's closed...so...

" During yesterday's hearing, Greco admitted that he wrote a computer program that was later used to create thousands of fraudulent accounts at instant messaging service MySpace.com in October and November 2004. The program automatically sent more than 1.5 million spam messages containing advertising for mortgage refinancing and pornography to MySpace.com users."

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