America Online and Microsoft are hitting spammers where it hurts most: They are confiscating their assets and giving them away. AOL, the world's largest Internet service provider, is awarding $20,000
in gold bars, a 2003 Hummer H2 and $75,000 in cash it seized from a major spammer as part of a legal settlement last year. It will hold a sweepstakes on its Web site starting Wednesday.
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