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    Network administrators quickly took the compromised system offline and began forensics, while FBI computer crime experts traced the demand letter to a cyber café in Romania -- a country that exports hacker extortion schemes the way Nigeria produces Internet advance fee scams. Agents zeroed in on two suspects who were already targets of FBI investigations in Mobile, Alabama and Los Angeles, California for similar protection rackets, and the pair were quickly rolled up by Romanian law enforcement. The matter "is now pending prosecution in Romania," says FBI spokesman Joe Parris.