Blackmailing incident

Well, just two days ago now I experienced one of the weirdest incidences in my life. Someone in my contact list on MSN messenger, who i bought hosting from in the past, said that he will disable my hosting if i dont let him use my adsense account (his got banned) and then send him $50 every two days. I said this was ridiculous because most likely my account would get banned too, and i would have lost $50x15 and get nothing back.

And so he goes and disables my hosting. I talk to him about it, and then he says hes really sorry and it wont happen again and if he can use my account. This is the same guy who completely copied one of my sites (he didnt even bother changing the title. he didnt change the adsense on it either).

I still tell him "no way"

Then i went away for vacation and come back three days ago. And guees what i discovered? MY hosting was turned off again! This time i got really P.O.ed and did not hide it. He then said this:

If you do not pay me $400 right now, I will get your account banned for invalid clicks by clicking a bunch.

Now, sum1 clicking a bunch happened once before, and I contacted google back then and nothing happened, so I said to myself: "Ill just get the logs and show em to google if he clicks" and i proceeded to remove the ads to make the appearance my account was already banned, and told him it was so.

He laughed and said pay him $200 and he could get my account back. I said no.

Next he said to pay him $400 or he gets my host to turn off hosting (at this point i started thinking "who does he think he is??"). So he contacted my host (whom i know sort of personally) and started BSing that hosting proxy sites is illegal, etc.

My host said witout a court order, he does nothing. The blackmailer then proceeded to harass him over live chat. The host took the live chat and the guy's IP and sent it to the ISP and the copied site and sent that info to the host. As some say, that guy got PWNED.

Anyways, thats the incident. I just cant believe what this world is coming to when people make money that way.

The guy's msn names (he has two, he tried to scam me with the other) are:

and

BEWARE OF THOSE NAMES! BLOCK THEM ASAP!

He ended up really clicking 50 times and I ended up contact google.

 

holy cow man...where the heck do you have your website hosted? KERPLEKISTAHN?!

 

Thanks for that man - wierd story, glad you won

 

Why are you even still hosting with this guy after the first incident?

 

I'm not

Switched over to dimensionservers.com after the first one, and theyve been amazing. He's the one who sent the blackmailers info to the ISP

 

oh god who was that actually ,oh thankx for letting us know

 

thats a real mess, is this happening for real

 

yea you can have the messenger transcript if you want

 

yes, this is rediculous, did you at least get a complete backup of your data before he disabled your account on the hosting?

 

Unfortunately, no, I was on vacation when he disabled it :-/

 

If you are in the states, I would recommend contacting the FBI.

 

I hope that guy gets banned across the board.

 

It seems to me you were still hosting after his initial threats.

 

It seems its not the first time this prick has ripped someone off - see Namepros which is an interesting read. Also mentioned on here - Found the cache of his site here but having no luck with the whois.

Another mention of him on webhostingtalk

 

He owns getproxy. net <-- site he copied off me, not wokring now and rahulhosting.com

 

and another of his rgpc.net - not working but the whois matches the others and he can also be traced on different websites.

 

1) you should have given him some ugly words from the start.
2) you should have changed the hosting from the start
3) you should have contacted google from the start
4) you should have chosen a proper hosting company with reputation...from the start.( however all of us could have done the same and chose that hosting

oh and with every pm or email he sent u, u should have sent him more ugly words. like **** ,*******,**** and **************************.

 

wtf ... this idiot is actually making money with blackmail over the internet? .. who is stupid enough to pay him anyway

 

wow.. thats a weirdest thing I've heard all day!?!

How can people try to make money via blackmail on the internet?! I mean, $400, $200... d'you think he's ever managed to do it to anyone? would be interesting to find out..

 

I bet there are people that would be willing to do anything to avoid controversy.

Bet jeesus this guy sounds like he has links with the "mafia"! Be careful buddy.