$50 or I'll publish your dirty cameraphone pics

This isn't quite on the same level as Paris Hilton's Sidekick account getting hacked, but some guy in Washington state decided it'd be a good idea to try and extort $50 from the woman whose cellphone he "found." When she called her phone's number hoping to get it returned, he demanded that she pay him fifty bucks before he'd agree to give it back, telling her that if she refused to pay up he was going to post some of the naughty pics he found on her cameraphone on the Internet (which is why it's probably a good idea to regularly delete anything potentially embarrassing from your phone). The woman's next call was to the cops, who set up a sting operation that resulted in a dude by the name of Jason Dawson getting arrested on second-degree extortion charges.

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picturephoning.com]