"or pay the bad guys with a credit card to get the unlock code (assuming there even is one) to recover the locked data, then - one would assume - attempt to get the money back."
Yea, thanks for that...
Us people in the bitcoin world love to have our accounts frozen and police knocking on the door cause we used a business to steal money from people.
Way to screw over small businesses.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
