Independent - London,England,UK

One of America’s most notorious “spammers” - the underground entrepreneurs responsible for the deluge of adverts for Viagra, pornography and high-interest loans which swamp e-mail inboxes - may have buried his illegal gains in his parents’ garden.

AOL, the e-mail giant whose millions of customers were among Davis Wolfgang Hawke’s targets, has won permission to dig up two acres of Massachusetts in the search for gold bars and platinum believed to have been stashed there.

AOL to dig up garden in hunt for spammer’s gold