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We found your note and it brought us here. What is it that you want from us?

We are a small company so please give us time to go over the list. And what exactly do we need to pay?

$4,000,000 is a ton of money, were are going to have to discuss with the team on what we can do here so please be patient while we try to figure that out.

We've had a chance to discuss and review this internally. We're not starting anything with lies, and we have no intention of dragging anything out. We also want a quick resolution here, but $4,000,000 is an unrealistic amount for us. We can offer you $200,000, which to us is a lot of money. Would this be enough to get your help here? We don't even know if you can restore our files.

We are doing all the work we can and $200,000 is serious money for us. We don't deal with this sort of thing day in and day out like your group may, but we are still hopeful that we can work something out. To that end we would like to ask if you could come down off of your price.

We're going to need a few days to meet and discuss what we may have available because we can't pay anywhere near the $3.8M you're asking for. Like we said, we're hopeful that we can work something out but we're still trying to process the amount you have asked for. We'll provide an update either Monday or Tuesday.

We've spent the weekend combing our finances and we would like to tell you that we can't afford $3.8 million dollars, however we would like to pursue a deal. We have been able to make $300,000 available. We hope you consider our offer because it represents our current financial capabilities

We understand that you want paid and appreciate you reducing your price but what you are asking is still far away from what we can offer you. We have worked hard on freeing up additional funds and we can increase our offer to $350,000.

We simply cant pay what you're asking for. We offered you a lot of money and ask that you reconsider our offer or come down further so we can come to some agreement in the near term. Are you able to come down further?

Your demand of millions of dollars isn't something that is reasonable or feasible... we just don't have that kind of cash. We ask that you help us out with a reduction in the price.

Thank you for the discount but as we keep telling you we cannot afford anything near that price. We are still working as hard as we can to free up additional funds. We have a meeting scheduled this week to discuss and will give you an updated offer after our meeting.

Your price is still far beyond anything that we're able to pay. This has been going on for some time now and we would like to put it behind us. To that end we would like to offer $375,000 to be done.

That's still far beyond what we're able to pay and we're not going to have everyone available this weekend to discuss further. We will discuss your offer when everyone returns after the weekend and we will reach out then.

We were able to meet and we can increase our offer, although not by much. We can make $400,000 available to settle this incident. Can you accept?

We saw your message and see your site says the decryption tool has been deleted. Are you telling us we have no way to restore our files now? Is it actually deleted?

Thank you for not deleting the decryptor and we were concerned it would be gone. We understand you want to get a deal done, but you encrypted our files at what was already a very difficult time. We had just recovered from another ransomware event with a different group. We had only barely gotten our systems running again. After dealing with that, we do not have much of anything left to offer you due to all of the costs associated with the first ransomware group. We want to purchase your decryptor and get back to business but we simply cannot due to the first attack.

No, the first group did not give us any advice. And unfortunately, as we have said we can't pay the amount you are asking. If we could, we would gladly pay it. Two of these attacks in very short order has left us very distraught and in a bad place. But we cannot give you what we don't have. We can still offer you the same amount we did before of $400,000 that we can pay in short order if you are willing to accept it. We just want to be done with this and get back to business as this has been extremely difficult for us.