Had a friend tell me about his sister getting hit by this. She went to use her computer, it said that it had been locked out. In order to unlock it, they would need to send $500 in Bitcoin payment to them. She called around, trying to find some help, called the police, the police told her to call the FBI, she called the FBI and the FBI said "Pay it, it's nothing we can do and it's the only way you'll get access back, have a nice day".
She didn't know what a Bitcoin was, got with someone that helped her with that, she paid the people $500 in Bitcoin, they gave her access back to her.
It's untraceable, and real money has changed hands.
It was interesting he was telling me that, as I had read about it on some tech site not too long ago.
Just something to be aware of out there. It's not fake, it's very real.
Even the police department paid up!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...220-story.html