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Spammer's Porsche Up For Grabs

Posted by timothy on from the please-go-with-the-house-ideas dept.

gaurab writes "Anti-Spammers would love this. In this news piece, the BBC reports that AOL is putting up a Porsche it seized from a spammer last year in a sweepstakes. What next -- 'Spammer's House' in another sweepstakes? Is this the sign of things to come? From the story: 'Internet giant AOL has ratcheted up the war against unsolicited e-mail with a publicity-grabbing coup -- an online raffle of a spammer's seized Porsche. AOL won the car -- a $47,000 Boxster S -- as part of a court settlement against an unnamed e-mailer last year.'"

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  1. That's weird by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    1. Sell your customer address list to spammers
    2. Sue the spammers
    3. ???
    4. Profit!

  2. Girls love guys with big by kernelblaha · · Score: 0, Troll

    cars. 'Cos everyone knows that the size of the car is directly propotional to the size of the mailbox.

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  3. Re:Does it come with a CD Multiplayer? by Endive4Ever · · Score: 1, Troll

    The operators of the mail servers should, uuuhh, probably change the way they do business.

    I'm not excusing what the spammers do, but really, the 'consensus' based way the email system works is fundamentally broken.

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