Tuesday, March 30, 2004

AOL raffling spammer's Porsche


AOL is raffling off a spammer's Porsche, which it won in a court settlement.
Seizure of property is becoming a major tactic in these lawsuits, since guilty spammers often protest their inability to pay large fines... The Porsche-owning spammer, whose identity remains confidential, was one of a group sued last year for having sent 1 billion junk messages to AOL members...
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