New York-AP -- Finally, some payback for all that spam, thanks to America Online.
An A-O-L sweepstakes launching Tuesday will offer a spammer's 2002 Porsche Boxster S as grand prize. A-O-L obtained the car in settling a lawsuit against a spammer though to have made more than a (m) million dollars from the useless mailings.

Although the company has previously won cash judgments and destroyed computers used in spamming, A-O-L says the latest case represents a move toward targeting the fruits of spammers' labors -- things like cars, houses, boats and other property.

The sweepstakes is open until April eighth. Adult A-O-L members living in the continental United States are eligible, and they can only enter online.

A-O-L hasn't offered details about the spammer due to a confidentiality agreement. The two-door silver-gray metallic Porsche has 18-thousand miles, a leather interior and retails for 47-thousand dollars.

Well call me a "Girlie"...cause I want one!

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I'd feel dirty driving a spammer's car, or even worse, a telemarketer's car. I'd feel better if had belonged to a murderer or a drug dealer......

Well call me dirty-girlie, but I'd take that car in a heartbeat!

B

then you get a spam email that says:

"... win a Porsche Boxster S ..."

Well, when I win it I'll let you guys bid for it

This is really great news. You know, I'd rather have seen AOL tie the spammer to the back bumper and then have someone take the car through some fast twisties.

Spammers are low-life thieves (server hijacking, stealing bandwidth and server space), but what bugs me is that people reply to spam. We need to work on both ends of the spam problem. All I can do is tell everyone I know to never reply to it, or even open it; they'd never complain to the spammers' ISPs anyway.

:p :p :p

You had me giggling for a minute or two there..

Freestyler

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