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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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Re: AOL raffles spammer's gold bars 2005-08-16
Anonymous
The article below from this same source shows that Microsoft is not keeping the money:

Former 'Spam King' pays MS $7m to settle lawsuit

John Leyden, The Register 2005-08-09

Microsoft has ear-marked $5m of the settlement to expand its net security partnerships with governments and law enforcem...

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