AOL digging for spammer's treasure
Web giant plans hunt for hidden spam gold.
ISP mammoth AOL has obtained a court judgement allowing it to dig up the land of a convicted spammer's family, in a search for a stash of wealth they believe he has stowed away in the form of gold and platinum bars.
The spammer was convicted last year, and AOL was awarded over $12 million. However, the man has since disappeared, leaving only receipts for large amounts of precious metal. His now estranged family, who live in Massachusetts, insist the idea that he buried the stash on their land is ridiculous, suggesting instead that it may be somewhere in the nearby White Mountains region.
Read the full story in the Washington Post.
16 August 2006
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