AOL Plays Anti-Spam Robin Hood

Joseph Laszlo | August 10, 2005, 05:04 PM

Cheers to Broadband Reports for pointing out this Register/Security Focus piece on how AOL is taking a spammer's spoils, including a Hummer and a bunch of gold bars, and using them as prizes in a drawing for its subscribers.

Aside from the delightful alliteration in the sentence, "AOL obtained the gold, cash and car after suing an unnamed New Hampshire penis pill purveyor using the CAN SPAM Act." the piece illustrates a very creative example of how a company like AOL can use laws that let it take from spammers and help compensate (and entertain) its members, the victims of spam in the first place.

Of course, it also makes you wonder what other companies [Reuters] that have won cash or goods from spammers are doing with their loot...