He’d set up a writing competition with no entry fee and a small prize for the winner. The competition would run for just two weeks. No point in getting greedy.
But all wasn’t as it seemed. Logging onto the submissions page exposed the writers’ computers to the Sanskrit trojan, which accessed their credit card details. Thereafter, each typed story character added a tiny sum onto any payments made: insufficient to be noticed, but cumulatively amounting to a fortune.
At midnight precisely, the contest began. In no time at all, the sums harvested started to soar.