I didn’t see you explaining the facts as you have done now when the scam came to light. I will quote from the MyADSL article: “Social Flu Internet Marketing Manager Gareth Diedericks said that he was shocked when he found out how the business was run.”

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think anyone would assume from that (non-contested by yourself) quote that you were in fact deeply involved in SFM. It indicated that you were directly involved, and not as a “sideline” contractor as you now indicated. “I really thought that this was legit and even believed that I was going to become very wealthy” simply emphasizes that.

If you wanted to strongly indicate your position then perhaps you should have stated your position more boldly when asked for comment by MyBroadband.

My comments were based around those facts. You had your chance during the expose’ to state your facts. Thanks however, for feeling the need to indicate some more facts around the issue nearly *6 months* later.

On the other hand, when I have have something to say, I generally say it plainly. I honestly do feel that you were a bit naive in the commonsense department on this issue.

And I believe that my comments around that still stands. New facts aside.

I was approached by Enrico Rausa to run his marketing campaigns for the launch of SFM. I was shown just enough by Enrico Rausa to have me believe everything was legitimate.I was even given a 100GB account by Enrico Rausa that used a realm used by SFM.

I had only been working for SFM for a few days before contacting myBB to discuss banner advertising. This move directly resulted in the scam being brought to light. Consider this, Had I known that he was stealing bandwidth from the upstream provider, do you think this would be my first avenue of advertising?

The moment the accusation of fraud came to light, I not only resigned, but contacted the upstream provider and offered to meet with them. I disclosed all my particulars to their legal team and discussed all my working knowledge of the “operation”.

While I understand your frustration you mention regarding our last name, your comment the gene-pool meeting is offensive. I’d be happy to discuss this with you in person!

I write this just to let you know that if you choose to say bad things about people you don’t know – get your facts about that person right first!

Ask questions people!