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AOL Diggs for Gold

America Online has sued the man that was sending millions of unsolicited commercial spam e-mails to its users. AOL was preparing to dig up the back yard of the man`s parents in Massachusetts, and it even got a court order for it. However, the owners of the yard were preparing to go to another court to block the excavation.

It is assumed that gold and platinum bars are being buried in the two-acre yard in Medfield. But Peggy Greenbaum, the mother of the spammer known as Davis Wolfgang Hawke, told the Associated Press that the family doesn`t believe the nonsense that any such gold or platinum bars are buried in the yard. The mother told the Associated Press: "I don`t care of they dig up the entire yard. They`re just going to make fools of themselves. We certainly wouldn`t allow him to put any gold on our property."

The spammer Hawke, who has used different names in the past, lost a court case to AOL, which won a $12.8 million judgment. Law enforcement authorities say they have not been able to contact him recently and that he missed a court date. In its case before the U.S. District Court in Virginia last year, AOL produced receipts traced to Hawke for large purchases of gold and platinum. He made a fortune marketing penis enlargement pills and other e-mail spam over the Internet.