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AOL Digs Up Yard for Spam Gold

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the online-treasure-map dept.

Registered Coward v2 writes "AOL is planning to dig in a MA couple's yard looking for buried gold and platinum owned by a spammer they successfully sued for spamming AOL. AOL said Tuesday it intends to search for gold and platinum bars the company suspects are hidden near the home of Davis Wolfgang Hawke's parents on two acres in Medfield, Massachusetts. The family said it will fight in court to oppose AOL's plans."

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  1. Profit!!! by guruevi · · Score: -1, Redundant

    1: Make kid that chooses spamming as a career and let him bury some stuff in your backyard
    2: Find out that "some stuff" is gold and platinum. Oppose digging works in court, dig up gold and platinum while you have to be in court
    3: ???
    4: Profit!!!

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  2. Will they get the dirt on him? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Good thing he didn't bury cash, that would be dirty money.

    But wait, there's more...

    All your nematodes are belong to us.

    In Soviet Russia, ISPs dig up dirt on YOU. Oh wait.

    Next week's news article:
    Acting under court order, AOL dug up the lawn of a spammer's parents, looking for ill-gotten profits turned to gold. What they found instead was a cache of 10,000 AOL CDs.