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AOL to Give Away Spammer's Porsche
introverted writes "CNN is reporting that AOL is giving away a spammer's Porsche. As part of a settlement with a spammer, AOL took the spammer's Porsche Boxster S, and they're running a sweepstakes (already ended) to give the car away."
Is this three or four weeks old now?
Feel that power? That's mah MOUSING FINGER
This was in the mainstream media, even. And Slashdot.
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Yeah it is doing its laps
*ducks*
Let's hope the winner know's someone with a driving licence...
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It's probably got spammer cooties.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Unless (heaven forbid) ALL spammers driver Porche?!?!
Does it come with a CD Multiplayer? And any guesses what they'll fill it with?
mark my words
Slashdotters are laughing now, but just wait until the RIAA/MPAA take a cue from AOL and start liquidating pirates assets...
I'd continue the cutting & pasting of +5 mods, but I'm far too lazy. Thanks Claws Of Doom and WormholeFiend for me stealing the first +5 comments.
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I would have liked to give the man a free castration.
I am not a doctor, so I would probably botch it badly.
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It's a shame that it really *was* a dupe :/
You can have that too, you'll just have to wait for the second sweepstake where you can win all the guy's personal data, including his address :)
How about greeting him with a "Do you feel lucky, punk ?" when he opens the door ?
"Naughty, naughty, naughty, you filthy old soomka !"
AOL are getting their Porsche $ back 100 times over with all this free publicity, perhaps spam is a good thing they are thinking ?
Maybe he got a better deal by giving away his car rather than an equivalent amount in money - but how'd they reach the settlement amount? Had the spammer's actions caused enough damage to AOL to justify the $1million settlement claim? My guess would be that the spammer's actions cost them bandwidth and diskspace - but are they justified in charging him the amount just because their users didn't delete the junk soon enough or their filters are lame?
Not I'm justifying spam or spammers...but if they reach an out of court settlement for a million dollars, on the grounds that they won't pursue a lawsuit against him - it sounds an awful lot like extortion to me. I would like to see the damages of $1million justified in public - otherwise every crook company (we have plenty of them - RIAA/SCO/etc) could go around threatening people with lawsuits (which the individuals couldn't afford) and demand out-of-court settlements and the people being sued would have no choice but to pay up unless they had resources to pursue their case in court.
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All the hottest chicks from YOUR country are here right now practically giving it away just so they can find an American to marry and become a citizen. We've got the pick of the crop here (not Slashdotters necessarily, but the rest of us.) No wonder you're upset.
Where it is "funny" to talk about shooting a spammer in the face, whereas you get Karma Kastrated for suggesting the same thing for a evil shitbag like Ralph Nader.
Settle mao che minh, people might think you have a weak member and are trying to compensate.
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"Yeah well there's a lot of stuff that should be, but isn't"
...in a drive-by in his former automobile.
Wouldn't it be ironic if the spammer was the one sending those "GET OUT OF DEBT NOW!" messages.
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A doctor would know not to use a Magnum to perform the castration.
...
You're not a doctor, so
Also FatPhil on SoylentNews, id 863
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maybe I can take one of their cars!
::looks out window and sees their 1975 Pinto Wagon ::
Nevermind...
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
The guy's life reads like a spam-filled success story. If I post this article at work, we'll lose 10 people tomorrow.
"Hi everybody, I'm Robin Leach, and I'm here today looking at the gorgeous 20 million dollar home of [insert spammers name here]!! It's a fabulous castle bought with all that email money, because spamming REALLY DOES WORK!!! Of course, he had the cheapest mortgage on the planet! Boy, he's more loaded than half of Hollywood, and it's like he didn't even work for it! With spam, he seems to MAKE MONEY OVERNIGHT!!! While you stupid peasants are out there slaving away, he's clicking "Send Now" and watching his fabulous dragon's mound of gold coins pile ever higher! He's so smart, he doesn't even need a spellchecker! He has a stable of Porsches and a stable of lovely ladies! And that huge penis of his is a favorite around town! He has no problems meeting ladies because Spamming REALLY DOES WORK!!" He's living the American Dream, and I'm just poor fat old Robin Leach!!!
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
Whoah.
Deja Vu.
The Porsche was probably part of the liquidation of assets. If they guy didn't have enough hard cash to pay the settlement/award to AOL, AOL can then start liquidating his assets to get all the money they were awarded. I don't know who gets to choice which particular assets get "disposed" of, but I guess AOL worked with the government to just keep the Porsche as a Porsche and not convert it into cash. The spammer probably made out on the deal also, as I believe the cost of turning assets back to cash would have been charged to the spammer. So instead of converted the $40K Porcshe into $30K cash or whatever someone would have bought it for minus the cost of selling it, the spammer probably got the full 'value' out of it.
It's a second Porche.
:)
Double my parents chances.
It's a Porsche Inboxster.
Oh, puhlease! Cowboy Neal has better taste than that! He drives the Slashdot Cruiser!
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Am I the only one who thinks it's funny that a link to the dupe got marked redundant?
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aaah, one million valid email addresses for phase two! WARRRAARARRAGAAARRAAGG!!
Wouldn't you rather make him pay for it?
1.) Find spammer.
2.) Castrate him.
3.) Add insult to injury: make him pay for it.
4.) Profit.
It would be fitting because he has been making us pay for his abusiveness.
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I don't claim party allegiance of any kind. First link from google that came up. Evil shitbag scam artist.
You obviously don't watch enough late-nite TV. Don't you know that you can buy cars and homes siezed from similar low-lifes by the FBI, IRS, repo men and other organizations? Auctions are being held right now near you! You can also obtain financing for your low-life auto auction purchase!
1. Announce sweepstakes for spammer's porsche
2. Get people to sign up; collect email addresses
3. Sell email addresses
4. Profit!
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Remove this person
and you will save time for all
the people that never knew
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We have these things called "civil torts". When you damage someone by costing them lots of money or time, you can get sued to get it back.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
And I suppose uncivil torts are extorts eh?
;).
I'll await your retort
Who exactly is Ralph Nader scamming and how is he benefitting? Are you talking about student PIRG fees? You mean the fees that the student body overwhelmingly opts to adopt by popular vote? You mean the fees which are entirely optional? Do you mean the student PIRGS whose parent company was founded by Ralph Nader 30 years ago? The Ralph Nader who has selflessly dedicated his life to consumer and environmental advocacy? You mean the Ralph Nader who lives in a studio apartment and owns neither a car nor a television? He's your evil shitbag scam artist?
Am I the only one who thinks AOL sending me a Cd in the post every fortnight asking me to join up with the crappy service is spam? Spam that is far worse then the digital form as it involves so much wasted resources and environmental damage deleivering the discs. So let's have a compo where the winner walks off with a million bucks in AOL shares. Hypocrites.
Where can I find a $30k Porsche Boxster S?
let's take away posting privileges for the moron who submitted it and remove approval privileges for the party who let it slip through.
There are plenty of interesting articles so we don't need repeats.
The RIAA have already done this will people using P2P programs to share music. When you are being faced with $500,000 fines for every song on your computer...cutting a deal for $2500 doesn't look so bad.
I hate the rich
that'll teach you to mouth off un-anonymously. Eat shit slashbot.
I guess one lucky winner will have his/her e-mail address published on AOL's page... ;)
Actually, I am kind of proud of this being old news. Re-affirms my hopes that not many /. users get, let alone read, their monthly AOL-Members Newsletter. *sniff*
Slightly counteracts the fact that AOL sucks sweaty llama balls.
Huh.. modded DOWN? I thought I was rather funny. And I intend to go on writing THE SAME FUNNY QUESTION each time Slashdot break the AOL Porche story anew. So there.
The world looks more and more like a never-ending Jerry Springer episode. The point is that AOL had no business seizing this man's Porsche, they should have sued him dry and let the prison dogs drill him a new asshole.
Let's see here: the Bush gov't has spent bazillions to seek out and destroy Bin Laden/Saddam etc. We catch this one little spammer prick that we'd just love to have drawn and quartered on national TV, and yet they just say "Give us your shiny red car" and let him loose. And now make a media crazy by raffling away the car. Good lord, I'd rather raffle away the privilege of slicing this guy to pulp with an AOL-CD launcher. Naw, I'd be cheap and keep that entertainment for myself.
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