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America Online Strikes Gold In Spam Settlement & Announces Spam Down More Than 85%

AOL Launches Sweepstakes to Give Away Assets Seized from Spammer Under the CAN-SPAM Act, Including a Fully-Loaded Hummer H2, Gold Bars & Cash

DULLES, VA - Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - America Online continues to lead the fight against spam and as a result, AOL members are increasingly enjoying a spam-free email experience. Today, AOL announced that spam is down more than 85% on the service, as measured by member referrals, and AOL's anti-spam filters are blocking more than 1.4 billion pieces of spam each day, as compared to a high of 2.4 billion messages blocked in a single day in 2003.
AOL also announced that it has recovered nearly $100,000 worth of gold bars and cash, as well as a fully-loaded 2003 Hummer H2, from a major spammer that AOL caught with the help of its members.

Stock Option Trading As a reward to AOL members, visitors to AOL.com and web users, the spammers' ill-gotten loot is being given away through the "AOL Spammer's Gold Sweepstakes", which starts today. Additionally, the Company said it would donate tens of thousands of dollars worth of high-end computer equipment seized from this spammer to local public schools and school systems in Northern Virginia.

-- 98.17% - Steep Reduction in the Number of Spammer Websites Hosted in China MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, -Commtouch Software Ltd. ( CTCHC) Commtouch(R) ( CTCHC), spam solutions featuring Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD) (TM) technology, announced today that the Commtouch Spam Detection Center analyzed hundreds of millions of spam messages in the month of July 2004 and found that 88.42% were of new origin and 98.17% of the URLs advertised in spam messages were new compared to the previous month. Those numbers indicate that 88.42% of the IP addresses used to send spam messages were new in the month of July.

Currency Day Trading The gold, cash and the Hummer were seized as part of the first lawsuit filed by AOL under the federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, and aided by AOL members who have used the "Report Spam" button to help AOL anti-spam, digital detectives investigate and snare one of the country's most prolific spam gangs.

The number of daily spam attacks more than doubled in the last two months of 2004 to an average level of 1.35 million spam outbreaks per day, a new report claims. spam solutions firm Commtouch found that the level of spam outbreaks over the period sometimes exceeded 1.5 million per day. However, the company also found that the average duration of a spam outbreak shortened dramatically, from two days at the beginning of 2004 to an average of seven hours by the end of the year.

Financial Software Trading In addition to these assets, AOL has also obtained a $13 million judgment in the case against the remaining members of the spam gang.

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Online Stock Trading Company "The safety and security of our members is Job No. 1 at AOL, and that means taking aggressive action against spammers and scammers. I am delighted that our efforts are paying off, literally, with the seizure of these assets and the sweepstakes," said Jon Miller, Chairman and CEO of America Online. "Today, we're putting the brakes on spammers and celebrating our gold standard spam protections for the AOL service and the AIM Mail product at AOL.com. Our hard work in fighting spam is paying off in another way as well -- since November 2003 when spam was at its peak, we've achieved a dramatic and hugely beneficial decline in the amount of spam reaching our members' email boxes."

This does not mean that we can prevent spam from happening on the Internet. Unfortunately, spammers obtain email addresses in a number of devious ways, including when you respond and ask to be taken off a spam email list, and in some cases by just generating emails to millions of random email addresses in the hopes of getting a few "live" ones. Please be assured that at Fandango we hate spam as much as you do, and we do our best to avoid contributing to it.

Forex Day Trading The company attributes this success to its multi-pronged approach in fighting the scourge of spam, which includes a combination of software tools, filtering technology, public policy, litigation and enforcement, and industry partnership.

The UK's online population is receiving over 68 million spam emails every day, or 7, 883 every second, according to new research from uSwitch.com.

Financial In Market Sweepstakes Details This Sweepstakes begins August 10 and runs through August 19. AOL members can enter the sweepstakes at AOL Keyword: Spam Sweepstakes; non-members can enter at http://aolhummer.onlinepromo.com. Entrants will have a chance to win daily cash prizes as well as the Grand Prize -- a Hummer H2 and approximately $85,000 in gold bars and cash. Each day throughout the promotion period, participants may gain one additional entry in the Grand Prize drawing and one (1) entry in the daily "spammer cash" drawing ($1,000 each day) by returning to the site to answer the special "AOL Spammer's Gold" question for that day that focuses on security and safety issues. Those that participate each day throughout the 10-day promotion period will receive an Official AOL Spam Patrol certificate.

Stock Trading System The yellow 2003 Hummer H2 is a premium sport utility vehicle, with a 6.0 liter V8 engine, 4-speed automatic transmission, AWD, antilock 4-wheel disc brakes, skid plates, OnStar equipped, power and heated leather front seats, split folding second-row seat, sunroof, chrome appearance package, 6-CD changer, and 17-inch wheels. In addition, the trunk of the car contains various products from Time Warner brands, including HBO (The Sopranos and Entourage DVDs), Warner Brothers (movies, games, plush toys and more), CNN (travel bag and binoculars), Time Inc. (a variety of books), New Line Cinema (Lord of the Rings I, II & III), as well as items from Cartoon Network, Turner Broadcasting, WBTV, and others.

Day Trading Stock Tip The gold bullion is comprised of 33 gold bars each weighing one ounce, and nine gold coins. The gold is valued at nearly $20,000, and there is an additional $75,000 in actual hard cash seized from the spam gang.

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