AOL raffles spammer's gold bars

AOL raffles spammer's gold bars
John Leyden, The Register 2005-08-10

AOL is planning to give away assets seized from spammers in a US sweepstake due to launch Wednesday. A 2003 Hummer H2, $75,000 in cash and $20,000 in gold (pictured [a href="http://corp.aol.com/press/media_spammersloot.shtml"]here[/a]) are up for grabs in a give-away of the illicit gains of junk mailing. It's the second time AOL has given away assets confiscated from a spammer. Last year, AOL raffled a $45,000 Porsche Boxster it seized as part of a settlement against another unnamed junk mail scumbag.

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AOL raffles spammer's gold bars 2005-08-11
Anonymous (2 replies)

And what of Microsoft's $7 Million? Even though the company has no need for it, given its current wealth, it holds on to it instead of giving it away to its customers. AOL is a class act in doing this, as it knows its customers also bare some of the brunt the spammers cause. Microsoft is just plain greedy, though this isn't surprising at all considering it is ultimately Microsoft that bares most of the blame given that their insecure by default software is the most used operating system for spamming, given all the zombies running on Microsoft systems.

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Re: AOL raffles spammer's gold bars 2005-08-16
Anonymous