They were told, as they moved up the managerial ladder at the call center, that the amount they had sent in was much larger than their normal monthly payment. And if the increase hits a certain percentage higher than that normal payment, Homeland Security has to be notified. And the money doesn't move until the threat alert is lifted.
There's a theory that says "if you put a million monkeys in front of a million typewriters, in a few years you can get the collected works of Shakespeare".
There's another theory that says the internet was invented precisely to test this :-)
2006-03-08
(WTF) what madness!
Capitol Hill Blue - Warning! Financial responsibility can lead to terrorism
2006-03-01
(FOSS) Stratus using Linux -- the missed story
Stratus Using Linux: the Missed Story OP/ED - www.reallylinux.com
When such a company, fixated on true fault tolerant hardware, having spent years developing their own OS, begins integrating Linux into its server line, that's saying something significant.