It's hard to believe and likely not true, but there is a risk for such virus to be used by terrorists.
It doesn't hurt reputation of Bitcoin. At some point any publicity makes people curious about the techmoney and more will start to use it.
Topic: More bad publicity - pay us a million in btc or we spread Ebola - page 3. (Read 5268 times)
October 28, 2014, 04:57:29 AM
October 28, 2014, 04:19:33 AM
The world has heard enough times that bitcoin is used by terrorists and drug dealers. This is wouldn't damage the name of bitcoin anymore than it is now.
If Czech government pays (I know they won't), the community (users, exchanges, mixers) would have an opportunity to openly help a government to track terrorists! That's good publicity for us
If Czech government pays (I know they won't), the community (users, exchanges, mixers) would have an opportunity to openly help a government to track terrorists! That's good publicity for us
October 28, 2014, 04:18:02 AM
This is called extortion inoculation. BS enough times and nobody will pay BTC to any extortionist.
Someone should start a bitcoin vigilante fund to catch that idiot. October 28, 2014, 04:12:04 AM
Lol you've got to laugh at these childish scammmers. Nobody is going to fall for this and certainly no one is going to pay it. They're just trying their luck. Hope they get caught.
October 28, 2014, 04:08:48 AM
How can people think about that kind of stuff. This kind of activity should be treated very forcefully. And I hope Ebola gets them first before they can spread it. 
October 28, 2014, 04:03:45 AM
This is called extortion inoculation. BS enough times and nobody will pay BTC to any extortionist.
October 28, 2014, 03:58:53 AM
"PRAGUE (AFP) - Blackmailers are threatening to spread Ebola in the Czech Republic unless Prague pays them a million euros' worth of the virtual Bitcoin currency, police said Monday.
An e-mail allegedly from the blackmailers claiming they had "biological material" from an infected patient in Liberia was published by the country's top commercial TV station, TV Nova, on Monday.
"An unknown perpetrator or perpetrators are blackmailing this state, threatening to spread the Ebola virus," the country's deputy police chief Zdenek Laube told reporters.
"From the very beginning these culprits have been seeking to spread panic, which is their primary goal," he added."
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/blackmailers-threaten-czech-republic-ebola-outbreak-bitcoin-currency-2014102
An e-mail allegedly from the blackmailers claiming they had "biological material" from an infected patient in Liberia was published by the country's top commercial TV station, TV Nova, on Monday.
"An unknown perpetrator or perpetrators are blackmailing this state, threatening to spread the Ebola virus," the country's deputy police chief Zdenek Laube told reporters.
"From the very beginning these culprits have been seeking to spread panic, which is their primary goal," he added."
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/blackmailers-threaten-czech-republic-ebola-outbreak-bitcoin-currency-2014102
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