the.com/extortion
a business model where the product is your own peace of mind, sold back to you
means the crime of forcing someone to hand over money, property, or favors through threats, intimidation, or abuse of power
from From Latin extorquere, "to twist out" — ex- ("out") plus torquere ("to twist"), the same root that gives us torque and torture. The image is brutally literal: wringing something out of a person as you'd wring water from a cloth, by twisting until they yield.
- origin word
- Latin 'extorquere' means to twist out
- classic line
- 'Nice place you got here, shame if something happened'
- legal cousin
- Differs from robbery by using threat, not force
- mob staple
- Protection rackets sold safety from the seller themselves
- digital era
- Ransomware turned extortion into a global industry
for instance
ross ulbricht silk road — darknet marketplace founder extorted $500k from users via dpr identity, 2011-2013
indian land mafia — organized criminal networks extort money from property owners and developers in delhi, mumbai, bangalore