From threatpost.com
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Scam threatens to flood sites using Google’s banner-ad program with bot and junk traffic if owners don’t pay $5K in bitcoin.
A new e-mail based extortion attack threatens users of Google’s AdSense banner-ad program with creating online behavior that will warrant them an account suspension—perhaps a permanent one–from Google if they don’t pay the attackers in bitcoin.