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Spammer Wins Gold

Luke Welling has been doing a bit of research about his fellow countryman, Dale Begg-Smith, who won an Olympic gold medal last night in the freestyle skiing moguls.

Described as an Internet entrepreneur, Begg-Smith is also known as "Spam Man" and owner of CPM-Media, producer of spyware, malware, and adware. He also has ties to mass email campaigns and popunder ads.

Read Luke's blog for the full story and supporting links.

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Spammer Wins Gold was posted on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 at 13:44:14 GMT. Follow me on Twitter.

5 comments

1.Luke Welling said:

I am not sure I am willing to own up to him as my countryman just yet. He sounds like Zak's countryman to me. http://zak.greant.com/

I vote we blame Canada.

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 at 14:04:13 GMT Link

2.Chris Shiflett said:

Fair enough. :-)

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 at 14:04:58 GMT Link

3.S said:

Hey now. It's not OUR fault.

It's YOUR gold after all!

S

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 at 16:01:43 GMT Link

4.Sean Coates said:

Karma. Who's got the gold now? (-:

S

(crosspost to Luke's site)

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 at 06:13:57 GMT Link

5.Mike Hillyer said:

Whoah now Luke, we told him to stop spamming and stick to skiing. When he decided he'd rather keep spamming we kicked him out and Australia took him. We don't want him back.

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 at 06:19:06 GMT Link

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