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AOL is not taking any excuses from spammers who say they can't pay the high fines associated with the lawsuits being filed against them.

From the BBC:

Internet giant AOL has ratcheted up the war against unsolicited e-mail with a publicity-grabbing coup - an online raffle of a spammer's seized Porsche.
AOL won the car - a $47,000 Boxster S - as part of a court settlement against an unnamed e-mailer last year.

"We'll take cars, houses, boats - whatever we can find and get a hold of," said AOL's Randall Boe.

According to Mr Boe, the Porsche's previous owner made more than $1m by sending junk e-mail.

I don't like AOL's services, but I can't argue with their methods in this instance. Looking at my Outlook spam folder I see that I've received 3,016 spam emails today. That's over three thousand useless advertisements for penis enlargement, financial assistance and other crap that I didn't even look at.

I don't feel one bit sorry for these spammers.

Go get 'em AOL.