At least one was accused by colleagues of trying to extort money by threatening negative coverage.
To experts, this looked like a ploy by a failing company to extort money.
The police also urge users to call authorities immediately if someone tries to extort money from you.
Public buses in Honduras are frequently attacked by gangs who rob passengers and extort money from drivers.
"The not-so-subtle insinuation that Ms. Kelley attempted to extort money from your clients is unfounded and reprehensible, " DePrimo responded.
Sounds a lot like patent trolling, a much-vilified practice in which contingency lawyers or small companies with no operations sue businesses to extort money.
Fake and hacked accounts are everywhere on social networking sites and are frequently used to send malware or occasionally to extort money out of friends.
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It's about the phenomenon of expressed kidnappings, where someone is grabbed for a short period of time in order to extort money from them or their families.
The group's enduring notion of the urbane "Mitsubishi gentleman" has also made it an easy mark for sokaiya, gangsters who extort money by threatening to air dirty laundry.
In court arguments, Cisneros's attorneys, Brendan Sullivan and Barry Simon, argued the tapes were not admissible because they were made in an illegal attempt to extort money from Cisneros.
Detectives also investigated Gibson's charge that Grigorieva, a Russian musician, tried to extort money from him with recordings she made of his telephone calls, a Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman said.
He said it was Mr Uddin who came up with the "ludicrous" amount of money and he had "no need to extort anybody for money".
The ex-fiance of Tamara Ecclestone has denied trying to blackmail her saying he had "no need to extort anybody for money".
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