Or more accurately, the fax machine with which I was faxing yesterday had a copy of the ``Superstock Smallcap Report / Our Next Pick: PGGG`` sitting on it. As I have a history developing wireless and internet-based gaming products, I was interested enough to keep the page.
My favorite part of the fax was at the bottom where it says:
``To request not to receive future faxes from the sender of this fax, please call (800) 619 6326``.
That`s a nice touch. The fake spam contains a fake phone number. Aficionados will recognise this number as a ZIP CODE LOOKUP service.
Since I saw the press release this morning decrying this ``unauthorized spam``, I did a little more checking into both Chimera and Pegasus.
First, who actually registered Pegasusgaming.com as a web site? ->
Registrant:
e-Network Costa Rica Limited
Oficentro La Sabana
Torre 6 Piso 6 Apt # 2
San Jose, San Jose 2050
Costa Rica
Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: PEGASUSGAMING.COM
Created on: 30-Jul-04
Expires on: 30-Jul-06
Last Updated on: 29-Oct-04
Administrative Contact:
Pereira, Melvin e_network@racsa.co.cr
e-Network Costa Rica Limited
Oficentro La Sabana
Torre 6 Piso 6 Apt # 2
San Jose, San Jose 2050
Costa Rica
18007500207 Fax --
Technical Contact:
Pereira, Melvin e_network@racsa.co.cr
e-Network Costa Rica Limited
Oficentro La Sabana
Torre 6 Piso 6 Apt # 2
San Jose, San Jose 2050
Costa Rica
18007500207 Fax --
This information is courtesy of Network Solutions; you can verify this yourself using their ``whois`` feature.
Now, go do a search of ``Melvin Pereira`` and you`ll find a link that contains the following line:
``... they have working behind the scenes. Mr. Melvin Pereira, who manages Chimera`s licensees, was especially helpful in ...``
So it appears at least I found the correct ``pegasusgaming.com`` entry. Note under the ``Meta keywords`` the following:
``Pegasus Gaming Corp, pggg, pegasus, 777, 777 betz, 777betz.com, 777 sports entertainment, Ecash, Chimera Technology, 724pay, 724 pay, Ecash, e-cash, e-commerce, electronic cash, electronic commerce, e-money, electronic money, banking, online banking,...``
So let`s go check out ``777betz.com`` using whois. It would appear that Melvin Pereira owns that one, too. So let`s go to 777betz.com and see what they`re all about:
ABOUT US:
``777betz.com is the operating name of 777 Entertainment Limited. The
casino (777betz.com) is 100% owned and operated by 777 Entertainment Limited, 68 Haydons Road, London SW19 1HL, UK. The parent company is 777
Deportes y Entretenimiento S.A. located in Costa Rica.
777betz.com is licensed to use the Chimera 2 suite of gaming products,
platforms and applications.``
My guess is that if you trace through Chimera`s licenses, you`ll find that an interesting number of the licensees are actually part of the same group, traced in part, back to Chimera.
If there`s any money to be made with this group, it`s in the Costa Rican parent of these ``licensees``. There probably isn`t an interesting amount of money to be made in J2EE-based gaming that hasn`t already been written. But there`s probably a huge amount of money to be made running the online gaming sites the way that 777 does.
Just my two cents.
iwire.
