Sounds like some Russian Mafia type junk. I recall the Russian Mob used to extort gambling site owners, and if the owner didn’t pay up they would do D.O.S attacks on the site. Casino sites make tons of cash, so the mob hit them, especially close to the Super Bowl. Grrrr…….

The scary thing is you could probably totally get someone banned from AdSense by using clickbots.

As borat says… VEEERY NIIICE!

Man that is just crazy i have heard of “threates” like this but never received any.

Wow, that is both humorous and un-nerving. The writer is obviously ESL. I have actually wondered for a long time why this doesn’t happen more often. I mean, it’s easy to get one’s hands on a bot to launch an attach like this, so why doesn’t it happen all the time? Maybe it does.

I guess you sent a copy to Google just so they have it documented. And I guess you’ll have to watch for any unusual activity in your stats.

Good luck Jeremy, I’m sure he’s all bark and no bite.

You had better pay up. I’ve heard of these guys. They do have special robots that can shut down your Adsense accounts.

lol

Ha, I am almost hesitant about copying and pasting that link into my browser! People will do anything for a buck. XD

Yikes… and with a sender like “dragon dragon” it sounds official…I’m ripping the internet chord out of my wall, hopefully dd doesn’t target your loyal readers too!

There’s nothing harmful on it, just one post about the “magnetic machine.” The inventor doesn’t even have AdSense on the blog

Now that’s something I didn’t know!

I wonder what adsense would say if you sent them that e-mail if you(anyone) got banned?

I like how it’s a threat then he gives a reason why you should do it !! LOL

“If you do not pay this amount we will have to close your account by the help of special robots….”

OMG. Hilarious. Robot power!

I even went so far as to click on the images on the blog. Just some bad sketches of a machine in its early stages.

Very sad if the dude was actually for real.

Ya, real scientist and inventors often use extortion to get their ideas going. It’s quite common

Don’t laugh, the Robots in South Korea will have rights very soon according to this article from the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6425927.stm

It’s actually pretty impressive what people will come up with these days. Creativity levels are amazing.

lol
Beginning is good, starting off with something Tony Soprano would say (if he was into AdSense) but than it goes all robots/scifi/star trek crap and I am not into that as much.

I wouldn’t have posted his blog link - as it is, now he’s getting traffic from all kinds of people who want to see what the site’s about.

Extortion - the new linkbait!

Jeremy, do you use AdLogger to prevent click attacks such as the one threatened? I’ve been thinking about putting it on all of my sites, and I probably will now that I’ve read this post.

I love the ‘from’… “dragon dragon”… now that is classic.

Perhaps this person also invented the frickin “laser beam”? I’d pay the $200….

Haha….. that’s funny. That’s the first time i’ve seen someone trying to extort/blackmail someone else then offering to pay them back later. On top of that, he’s claiming to do something for the good of mankind. Guess he’s robin hood

I got a similar email threatening to send an Elven Spellcaster who would forever immure me inside my computer monitor. Immure? Who says that?

The really funny thing is the blog entry was posted by “sara”

That’s a pretty good extortion letter.

First he appeals to your sense of fear with the scare tactics and then he tries to appeal to your greed with the “hot new invention”.

It’s the phishing double-play!

Ah, if I had know you were in Saint Louis I would have bought you a beer or a fruit smoothie or something.

I’m amazed you bothered to post about it. Many folk have abandoned AS because its actually too easy to disadvantage competitors etc (and from past posts its obviously not your primary income).. good for a laugh i spose..

I WANT A SHOEMONEY HAT AND TEE OR I’LL, I’LL, I’LL CANCEL YOUR AUCTIONADS ACCOUNT !!!

I never have used any 3rd party auditing software for contextual stuff

Hey man, he said he’d pay you back….

I wouldn’t try to extort the man who has control (to a degree) of the images that are being displayed on my website.

Here’s the funny thing: The extortionist is threatening to bombard Google’s Adsense with clicks. He also has a blogspot blog. Google owns blogspot/Blogger. Think Google will be able to track him down?

“My theory is changing the power into energy”

LOL!

I won’t close your adsense account Shoe. I’ll trade you my account for yours and we’ll call it even. Hilarious.

Does he really believe that magnet machine will work? :/

You should ask him where to mail the check then fly there and beat his ass.

I think it’s safe to say that he can go fuck himself.

No, but that’s pretty scary! Think about it though, sounds overseas to me, hmmm.

Soooo your going to pay up right? Since all your income is through AdSense, I wouldn’t take a chance!!!

can it be considered as extortion? A Hightech extortion…

I would be very careful he seems intent on making that machine. That is so extortion though, and its not funny, you should fwd that information to the authorities so people like this can stop this.

There are some strange people out there. Personally, I’d e-mail him back with the permalink!

He didn’t even left his bank account or paypal as a not? Man that’s bad business tactic, and I just wanted to send him 200 dollars! To bad

money for blackmailing? or science

How dare him..just ignore..

you got give him credit for the creativity

nice linkbait I’d say…

If I had received this I would forward it to Google. Understanding there is likely nothing they could do about it, and that they probably already know about it, if something like this actually turned out to be true and click bots were used to cause you to violate the AdSense agreement, you’d want it on record that you got this.
–Larry

I wonder if he has a cousin name Mutombo who is a heir to an African throne that needs the help of an American. Those guys are always needing to hide 50 million dollars.

Most of the spam I get always consists of Viagra, replica watches and mortgages.

Adsense killing robots are so much more interesting…

Jeremy, you’re a good kid and I like you! I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse…

You give 5% of your cut and the families will give you protection. Now, dont be a wiseguy or Joey will make you a visit.

I like how he’s offering to pay you the money back.

Theirs a website called 419eater where they wind people like this up, tag them along and get them to email stupid pics of themselves.

Is this guy serious? What a nut job if so… how could anyone take him seriously though?! What a joke.

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Had it happen to us in October last year.

We run a gambling portal in the UK and we were hit by a DDOS attack for about 3 hours. Next day we got a ransom demand for $12,000 saying they would do it again if we didnt pay up & gave an ICQ number to contact them.

We got the police involved but they couldnt trace much - the attacks were from a botnet (i.e. infected home pcs all over the globe) and the ranson was a site form submit but the IP came to nothing.

We didnt pay & havent been hit since but weve been developing defensive measures just in case

Yeah, I hadn’t heard of that before… any news articles out there?

Well, Adsense would probably ignore regular Joe but I’m sure Shoemoney has an ear there. If you forwarded this email to adsense I bet they could figure out what was going on and save you.

A new spin on an old game… but this is hilarious. I bet we’re all dead.

well, i’ll give this guy some credit…he is much more creative than the guys from the Bank of Nigeria that keep emailing me that my long lost uncle has passed away and that I only need to send them my personal and bank account information to inherit millions of dollars.

this guy did his homework while studying electro magnetic fields and the transfer of energy to electricity…he must have been using Google Scholar for his research

give him to the FBI

i have not read some thing that funny. Shoemoney you are sending him some free traffic

If you don’t approve my comment I will use my time machine to make all your links nofollow.

Lol, why do people even do this crap? It’s pathetic.

Probably so we can all have a good laugh? lol.

Wow, That is fucking pathetic. You should forward it to your adsense rep.

I laughed so hard on this one I cried.

This is probably that fuckingpirate guy trying a new angle on friendship.

Wow! What a great deal. I should put him in contact with this nice man from Nigeria that emailed me needing help to get money out of his country. Maybe the two of them could work together!

It’s certainly an attempt at extortion, pretty bad attempt though.

i dunno shoe … you’re lucky it’s a inventor X and not dr. evil … $200 is peanuts when you could be out …

“One Million Dollars!”

i dunno shoe … $200 is nothing compared to …

“One Million Dollars!”

just think about the hurting dr. evil could have put on you.

my post looked like it got wiped out (sorry if it’s a double)

The guy behind this must be an idiot, or a genious! If he does have the ’special robots’, Jeremy is not a small fish and there’s no chance he’ll get banned just like that (I think he’s having a nice laugh right now). However, his ‘revolutionary technology’ blog has just been published on a blog with enormous amount of daily traffic so I believe there are a lot of people checking it out right now! Jeremy should have erased the URL.

Completely off the wall question, but why were you in St. Louis? Did I miss a conference/seminar? I live and work in St. Louis, but this wouldn’t be the first time a conference slipped by me…

LOL! I loved the link text “Click hither for see image” on the site. Someone’s been getting a lot of use out of his English-to-Whatever-Language dictionary.

Reminds me a bit of the Nigerian scams or lottery scams. They know most people who get the email will ignore it or laugh at it, but if they spam enough people they might just find a few suckers who will pay up.

If anyone receives an email like this I recommend you post it at http://www.419eater.com. They specialize in baiting Nigerian and lottery scammer and I’m sure they’d love the chance to tear these extortionists a new one.

LOL… This is priceless. I looked at his site and he has a bunch of cheesy piuctures and … a payment address!
50000@yahoo.com Attack robots! Attack!

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,66358-0.html

This Wired article does a pretty good job.

Wow that is very interesting, thanks for the post.

Seems like there is some middle east connection:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=magnetic-machine.blogspot.com&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

The dude is definitely a douche.

And have a one page Blogspot blog

Ohh, Sara. Yeah, she’s the best.

hahahah…

That’s unbelievable. It is scary, though, to think that someone actually *could* get you kicked out — well, maybe no YOU (ShoeMoney), but they could probably get mere mortals kicked out.

Unlikely he’s for real. Genius inventor, maybe. Genius at marketing he sure ain’t.

He’s stupid. He’s not only spamming around..he is even threating people with an extortion. He can be easily arrested at least for the extortion thing.
If you find out where he lives. I’m sure blogger will give an help with extortion stuff. He is so dumb that forgot that blogger and adsense are both owned by google.

Shoe money gets visited by Virtual Mafia !

tell this stupid pank to frick off, no, dont tell him anything, he will frick of himself soon:)

Looks Chinese to me.

i.e. Dragon, plus the sketchy english.

Looks like kids are getting bored in Beijing these days…

Hahaha

Hey Shoe, I will shut down teh internetz if you don’t give me your ringtones keyword list!!1

Some people..

Ya I agree, you do run the risk. But, I am sure adsense has run into this before, and its not like Jeremy can’t notify them, heck he may even get to keep the extra dough!

hmm images draw in Microsoft Paint, the standard design tool of all mad geniuses..

He’s got this all wrong. It should be two seperate magnet’s of the same polarity pushing against each other on two seperate axis’. Only then will you be able to use the power of the earth’s rotational to free the world from carbon poisoning. What a fool!

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Seriously.. Which kind of rubbish mania came up with such a lame idea? Anyone who reads it would have known it is a bluff from the start. Who buys it, anyway?

Lame isn’t it? I thought so too.. Tough luck and choice he made. Shoemoney is never gonna be one to be ‘threatened’!

Good point. We need to stop being so selfish and froward these multi-million dollar opportunities to him ASAP.

Wow. I would have laughed and ignored something like this but when someone who makes a living through Ads gets a message threatening your lively hood, I’m sure it sent a few shivers down your spine.

I am to be fear of the robots. Money to account, moneyshoe!

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I got the same thing sent to me. The retard used my webform to submit it so i got his IP and other stuff and passed it along to google a few days ago.

I was thinking Mandarin.

and I bet Google will never do a thing about it either. companies never chase these things like they should when it’s soo easy.

Yeah, we should start a fundraiser for this “great inventor”

Most of these are plain, empty threats. Ignore them would be the best policy,

I guess most of us are not there yet on the ‘fame’ ladder to understand this issue at hand.