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11/8/2005

AOL users really get to MAKE MONEY FA$T (with SPAM)

Filed under: ISP Management — Othello @ 9:29 pm

The AOL Spammers Gold Sweepstakes is giving people a chance to win a Yellow Hummer H2, cash and even gold because of spam.

AOL managed to track down spamming scamming b@stard Brad Bournival of New Hampshire, US and get him to court.
They won their judgment against him, and secured a hefty settlement including:

  • Yellow Hummer
  • $20k in gold 1oz ingots
  • $75k cash

As part of a summer marketing promotion (previously they gave US subscribers to the AOL dial-up chances to win a Porsche Boxter seized from another fvckwit),
AOL plan to distribute the spam-gains in an online contest starting NOW!

From August 10 through to August 19 AOL have daily prizes of $1,000 cash, and the grand prize winner gets the Hummer the gold bars and the remaining ca$h.

Contest entry is sadly only open to US residents again, despite the fact we in the uK suffered the Sp@mKings shite getting into our mailboxes.

Contest entry is simply a case of filling in their form, and answering a simple security question they send to your @aol email address.
So if you have access to a North American address, and have been blessed with an AOL email address ;)
pop on over and get your chance of a daily £550, and chance at the SUV !

Next on the AOL anti-spam radar is Bournival’s fellow spammer Davis Hawke who owes them $12,000,000 USD and has fled the country to try and get out of paying up.

Sadly AOL aren’t investing any of the cash in stopping the 90% of spam and credit-card fraud that actually originates from them and their subscribers.

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