Originally Posted by candyflip

What happened was that someone else was spamming their system and the just assumed that it was him when he came to them with his proposal.

But yeah...they were claiming that 1.3 million emails in their system cost them over $20k to purge from their system. We all know that's bullshit.

Some mailers are sending out a few million per hour.

In my eyes, they set this kid up. I've read the email conversations. They baited him and he fell for it. They duped him in to flying out to LA for a business meeting. He was a 19 year old kid that thought he had landed a nice business deal. He wasn't out to extort anyone, but they most definitely did twist his words up to make it seem that way.