RE: 'Spam man' Strikes Olympic Gold

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

At one time, freescratchandwin.com was distributing adware/spyware according
to this write-up:

http://www.regblock.com/spydet_478_freescratchandwin.html

Richard



-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:06 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] 'Spam man' Strikes Olympic Gold

Via CNN/Money.

[snip]

Canadian-born Australian Dale Begg-Smith has gone from Internet mogul to
men's Olympic moguls champion but his air of mystery will hang around like
Wednesday's mist on the Italian Alps.

Favorite Begg-Smith, 21, snatched gold in the men's freestyle skiing moguls,
twisting and turning his way to Australia's first medal of the Turin Games
in the last run of the final.

He has struck gold before, running an Internet company which media reports
say is worth millions of dollars, but Begg-Smith was keen to play it down.

"It is complicated. It is technology for companies to monitor ad campaigns.
I don't do anything that pops up. I just make software."

Begg-Smith, who drives a black Lamborghini and is nicknamed 'the Spam Man'
by Australian media, refused to comment on whether Ads CPM, CPM Media,
freescratchandwin.com and secondthought.com were connected with his company.

"There's not really a name (for the company) anymore," he said.

[snip]

More:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/15/news/newsmakers/beggsmith.reut/index.htm

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg () netzero net or
fergdawg () sbcglobal net  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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