AOL Auctions off Spammers car

April 19, 2004 D. H. McKee

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America Online said its members have submitted more than one million AOL screen names in the Internet company’s unorthodox drawing for a spammer’s seized sports car.

Last week, AOL announced it had confiscated a red Porsche Boxster S convertible as part of a settlement with a spammer who made more that $1 million from sending unwanted junk e-mail. AOL, a unit of Time Warner Inc., launched a sweepstakes for the car on March 30 as “a gesture of support and thanks” to its members for their help in the fight against spam.

http://www.go2net.com/headlines/ap/technology/D81QQI7O1.html

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