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AOL recently won a $12.8 million judgement against Davis Wolfgang Hawke for sending millions of spam e-mails to it’s customers. AOL submitted reciepts claiming Hawke purchased large amounts of gold and platinum bars in order to hide his money, and they believe that he used a shovel to bury these bars in his parents’ back yard. So now, they’ll be going treasure hunting there. His parents had this to say on the subject (from the article):

“I don’t care if they dig up the entire yard. They’re just going to make fools of themselves,” said Peggy Greenbaum, Hawke’s mother. “There’s absolutely no reason for them to think that Davis Hawke would be stupid enough to bury gold on our property. My son is long gone.”

Well, this won’t be the first time AOL has made fools of themselves recently, and who knows, maybe they’ll find the treasure. Arrr.

Read more: CNN.com - With shovels, AOL looks for retribution - Aug 15, 2006 [via Boing Boing]