Man arrested for allegedly extorting Google

Last modified: March 22, 2004, 8:50 AM PST
8 I+ k: O! I% {0 E2 i7 W- j, ABy Jo Best
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A California man has been charged with extortion, after allegedly making demands for $100,000 from search giant Google.
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. [7 C3 k: L' f, B& r+ R$ U: x& S& b: wAccording to court papers, he claimed that if Google did not pay, he would release a piece of software to spammers that would generate fake advertising hits, costing the search giant millions.

" w7 J+ ]' `  Z% E2 |6 g/ p8 FThe man, Michael Bradley, was so sure that the folks at Google would pay up, he even turned up at their offices for a meeting to sell his software. By then, federal law enforcement agents were already on the case and videotaped the alleged extortion attempt.
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The software Bradley designed would have flooded the Google advertisements with fake clicks, potentially costing the company millions of dollars. Google pays Web publishers a fee for each click on the pop-ups the site generates. He threatened to give the software to the top 100 spammers in the meeting with Google's officials, court papers released on Friday show.

3 y$ c. \8 W$ F+ M8 l6 sAccording to the papers, he also offered his services as a consultant engineer to help the search engine stop other advertising fraud.
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After he didn't hear back from the search engine staff about a payment, he allegedly sent an e-mail saying he would release the software to the public--and the spammers--the following week. He was then met by someone whom he likely expected to be a Google executive clutching a big bag of money but who turned out to be a federal agent with an arrest warrant.

Bradley was released on $50,000 bail, on the condition that he has no contact with his computer or Google.
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% v+ X; F; j. k2 [$ ~  B) }Jo Best of Silicon.com reported from London.
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