This is so cool. I recently got some comment spam trying to extort me! I've never been involved in something so illegal and dangerous before.

(Freaking long list of web sites selling drugs removed.)

Don't like us posting in your blog? Just email me at carlahedrick@***.uk and you will never hear from us again.

"never hear from us again." Wow.

I wonder if it's real Mafioso or just a pimply-faced thirty year old living in his mother's basement sending this in between visits to porn sites. I swear, if she asks him to go walk the dog one more time, I don't know what he'll do. He's trying to extort down here!

Sadly, Spam Karma caught it and blocked the IP that was sending it. It was basically over before it began. Oh, but it was certainly one wild ride while it lasted. Thanks carlahedrick!

UPDATE: I just had an epiphany. I had assumed that our little extorter was Carl A. Hedrick. But what if it's really Carla Hedrick! What would this mean for women trying to break into extortion? Has the extortion glass ceiling finally been shattered?

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