Somnath Bharti: when a spammer becomes a government minister More than a decade ago I came across an outfit called TopSites LLC which was running a spam operation which was pestering webmasters to renew their listings in the Topsites directory which was basically an unlicensed rip-off of the Open Directory Project in what was basically a business directory scam. I documented the saga in a five-part series (plus a couple of follow-ups) and eventually TopSites shut up shop, with the main person behind it (Paul Aunger) cashing out from the business and buying into another firm called Inova Technology instead. There's a long story to that particular business and its I won't cover it here, but if you're really interested a trip to InvestorsHub is kind of interesting. http://blog.dynamoo.com/2014/01/somnath-bharti-when-spammer-becomes.htmlDynamoo's Blog: Somnath Bharti: when a spammer becomes a government ministerblog.dynamoo.comHi Dynamoo. Thanks a lot for bringing this out. I saw a URL that contained http://www.webnewswire.com/node/3571944 more information, on the basis of your blog. If he retained the domains (none of them were dropped), he may have invested his scam money in domains. computer.com (bought for 2.2 million...

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