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Maybe some sort of extortion scheme? Send an email to a small business person that isn't very technically savvy, say you have just erased all the search results for their business from Google, provide link, demand a Bitcoin to return the results.

Maybe a low hit rate, but if you could automate it, you could run the scam on a lot of places.



Similar in theme to that trick of sending strangers that "link to your facebook page" (http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363)


Can someone explain how this works?


The variable name before "=" is missing, therefore the given profile id gets ignored. Per default your own profile id is assumed.


Any invalid ID redirects to your own page, or something like that.




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