Q: Marriott IT is hacking male students for blackmail money.Can someone give me some direction?
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The Marriott Int. IT employees monitor the internet usage of students and which adult websites they visit. When they have a lead, they hack into victims email looking for compromising info. Then they ask the victim himself to pay up or they will release the content. If he refuses, they will email the compromising content to his family and they threaten the family that they will continue with friends and relatives if they don’t get paid. At the same time, to increase the pressure, they email the relatives and they tell them that they own very compromising information about the victim. This makes the victims relatives to call and ask what is going on. The IT also email the victim’s parents couple of fake LinkedIn emails which contains the profile of the relatives that they intent to send the compromising content to. #1)What is the jurisdiction to file a defamation lawsuit in this case?
A: Contact an attorney who is a member of the Maryland Assn for Justice. They give free consults. It would make sense for someone to contact the Maryland Attorney General's Consumer Protection Office.They are pretty strong, proactive.
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