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New York State kids Saverio Mondelli and Shaun Harrison pled out on charges of extorting $150,000 from Myspace by way of a program they wrote to surreptitiously collect e-mail and IP addresses from Myspace users. Mondelli and Harrison demanded a "consulting fee" of $150,000 in exchange for ceasing to distribute their program (for which they charged users $30). The best part of the case, though, is that the pair were duped into flying to Los Angeles to meet with Myspace bagmen and collect their cash. Of course, the only people waiting for them in LA were the Secret Service and district attorney. If you're trying to squeeze money out of Rupert Murdoch, best be a little more circumspect.