Comments on: AOL goes digging for spammer's gold

Company, owed $12 million by a spammer, gets permission to dig for gold and platinum bars in his parents' garden.

[marileev]

saving face

Is this gesture and follow-through on their 3 year old promise too little too late to save face with dwindling subscribers? http://www.essentialsecurity.com/Documents/article22.htm

[MaxRock17]

Am I missing something?

Somebody please tell me that at least it's gonna be the police digging up that garden?

Wouldn't anything that's burried there be the property of the owner of the estate? Or of the city?

Shouldn't the parents be taken in police custody if there's any reason to believe they know where their son is, instead of "embarrassing them in public"?

[chuck_whealton]

God, they're so pathetic...

I hope to God they have REASON to believe this spammer has hidden unjustly gotten gains under his parents garden.

If not, the court that gave them permission to do so is wrong. You don't harrass the family of somebody who's broken the law, you go after them.

Charles R. Whealton
Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com