ADVISORY/America Online to Announce Winner of Spammer's Sports Car; AOL Senior Takes the Driver's Seat After One of AOL's Most Popular Sweepstakes Ever.News Editors/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...for Thursday (April 29) WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 2004 AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. executives will hand over the keys to a Porsche Boxster The Porsche Boxster is a mid-engined roadster built by Porsche. The Boxster is Porsche's first vehicle designed from the beginning as a roadster; all previous Porsche convertibles were based on hardtop coupes. convertible to a lucky AOL member tomorrow -- as the company reveals the winner of one of its most popular sweepstakes sweepstakes, contest or race, usually a horse race, on which a lottery is run. Prizes are awarded to the holders of winning tickets. In the case of a horse race, the draw is made from the names of all the horses entered in the race and vast numbers of blanks. ever. AOL confiscated con·fis·cate tr.v. con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·cates 1. To seize (private property) for the public treasury. 2. To seize by or as if by authority. See Synonyms at appropriate. adj. the luxury sports car from a major spammer who AOL caught thanks to members reporting spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). . The winner, a senior citizen and veteran who hails from Berryville, Virginia Berryville is an incorporated town in Clarke County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,963 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clarke CountyGR6. Geography Berryville is located at 39.151 North latitude and 77. , was one of more than one million members who entered the unprecedented AOL contest for a chance to drive away with the spammer's sports car.
WHAT: Live interviews with the sweepstakes winner and AOL
executives at America Online Headquarters. The winner will
be handed the keys to his new Porsche Boxster convertible.
WHEN: Thursday, April 29, 2004
1:00 PM/EST
WHERE: America Online, Inc.
Headquarters Building
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, VA 20166
--- USE ENTRANCE AT Headquarters ---
CONTACT: Nicholas Graham,
America Online, (703) 265-1746
or
Lisa Gibby
America Online, (703) 265-1800
DIRECTIONS FROM DC:
- Take Dulles Toll Road - 267 West
- Follow Dulles Toll Road to Exit 9B, which is Route 28 North/ Sully
Road to Sterling
- After proceeding through the toll booth, continue on Route 28
North/Sully Road for 4 lights
- At fifth light, take a left onto Waxpool Road
- Remain in the left hand lane and make a left at the next light onto
Pacific Blvd.
- Make a right into the first entrance, called HQ and inform the front
gate that you are a member of the media
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