GAYLE ESSARY NOMINATED FOR 2004 SCAMMY AWARD.
our-street.com
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Award (best imitation of legitimacy by a scam)
Gayle Essary - Investrend.com and Financialwire.net
SafeScript Pharmacies Inc - SAFSQ (Pink Sheets)
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The 2004 SCAMMY AWARDS
To be awarded February 14th
The Official Announcement
The List of Nominees
Here is the list of 2004 Scammy Nominatees. These individuals and companies were nominated by our followers so don't go blaming us. PS: Residents of the United States are prohibited from viewing this material. This page is exclusively for our friends outside the US as there is currently insufficient protection and recourse against malicious SLAPP attacks on free speech in far too many states.
So, if you are a US resident please don't read the extremely interesting and informative information below. Further please don't copy this material and paste it on message boards everywhere, especially those financial message boards like raging bull, silicon investor and iHub etc for the various companies (even though it would not be a copyright infringement if you did) and lastly, please, please don't make sure everyone knows about this web page by sending them the link to this page and encouraging them to visit it too. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
Your opinion counts in the final decision of the highly respected independent panel we have assembled so, please let us know which of these companies you think should win the various categories. We will announce the winners on or about 14 February. VOTE HERE
(Nominees are listed in no particular order)
Worst Overall Scam
Global Materials & Services Inc - GMSV (formerly American Fire Retardant Corporations - AFRD)
Circle Group Holdings, Inc - CXN.
Skyway Communications Holdings, Inc. - SWYC
MediaBay Incorporated - MBAY
Newvisual Corp - NVEI
CMKM Diamonds - CMKX (Pink Sheets)
NanoSignal Corporation Inc - NNOS (Pink Sheets)
Worst Scam based on a tragedy or current event
US Global Nanospace, Inc. - USGA
Universal Guardian Holdings, Inc. - UGHO
Skyway Communications Holdings, Inc. - SWYC
Michael Moore's movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" (disqualified as it was not a publicly traded stock)
Worst Bio-Tech Scam
Diabetic Treatment Centers of America - DBTC
Vaso Active Pharmecuticals - VAPH (Pink Sheets, Originally NASD listed)
Merck & Co, Inc - MRK
Worst High Tech Scam
US Global Nanospace, Inc. - USGA
Skyway Communications Holdings, Inc. - SWYC
Power 3 Medical Products, Inc - PWRM (for high tech equipment used in wrong number phone scam)
Worst Homeland Security Scam
US Global Nanospace, Inc. - USGA
Universal Guardian Holdings, Inc. -UGHO
Skyway Communications Holdings, Inc. - SWYC
Worst performance by a stock promoter
Ethan Meyer of Hot Stock Advisor - For its promotion of Power 3 Medical Products, Inc.
Tom Heysek - Highlighted by his participation in the Concorde America, Inc. scam
Worst CEO of the year award
Gregory J. Halpern - Circle Group Holdings, Inc. CXN
Douglas Cohn - H-Quotient, Inc.
Brent Kovar - Skyway Communications Holdings, Inc.
Timothy Roberts - Infinium Labs, Inc. - IFLB
Worst Promotion
"The Wrong Number Phone Scam" Featuring Power 3 Medical Products and others - PWRM
Concorde America, Inc for "Hey where did that press release come from" - CNDD
Worst Performance by a Regulatory Agency
The Securities and Exchange Commission for Regulation SHO
The Securities and Exchange Commission for general failure to act on active crime in a timely fashion.
Worst Toxic Funding Package
Power 3 Medical Products, Inc - PWRM
Global Materials & Services Inc - GMSV (formerly American Fire Retardant Corporations - AFRD)
Worst Dilution of Shareholders
Cybertel Capital Corporation - CYBT
Global Links Corp - GLKCE
Global Materials & Services Inc - GMSV (formerly American Fire Retardant Corporations - AFRD)
Jackson River Co - JRIV (formerly JVRC before the latest reverse split)
Worst S8 Action
Cybertel Capital Corporation - CYBT
Global Links Corp - GLKCE
Global Materials & Services Inc - GMSV (formerly American Fire Retardant Corporations - AFRD)
Worst example of outright greed by an executive (Micro Caps Only)
Timothy Roberts - Infinium Labs, Inc - IFLB
Brent Kovar - Skyway Communications Holdings, Inc - SWYC
Robert Brehm - US Microbics - BUGS
Global Links Corp - GLKCE
Worst attempt to blame short sellers while insiders dump stock into the market
Richard Altomare - Universal Express, Inc. - USXP
Gregory J. Halpern - Circle Group Holdings, Inc. - CXN
Scott Ervin - Nanosignal Corporation - NNOS
Global Materials & Services Inc - GMSV (formerly American Fire Retardant Corporations - AFRD)
The "Silencing the Lambs" Award for most oppressive behavior in opposition of free speech
Gregory J. Halpern - Circle Group Holdings, Inc - CXN
Douglas Cohn - H- Quotient, Inc - HQNT
Timothy Roberts - Infinium Labs, Inc. - IFLB
Leslie Robins - Advanced Optics Electronics - ADOT
Michael Zwebner - Universal Communication Systems, Inc - UCSY
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Award (best imitation of legitimacy by a scam)
Gayle Essary - Investrend.com and Financialwire.net
SafeScript Pharmacies Inc - SAFSQ (Pink Sheets)
Our-Street.com's Special Lifetime Mischievement Award
This special award does not follow the usual nomination process. It is awarded to the person(s) the panel determines has dedicated himself or herself to ripping off the public as a career and has shown a consistency toward this end as well as a longevity by ripping the public off over many years.
This year, as we initiate these awards, we are not only announcing this year's recipient but also are retroactively awarding, posthumously, this award to a man who truly exemplified a commitment to stock fraud and set the bar for all those to follow. In the 80's and early 90's it was the penny stock broker who lead the scams, more than the company or promoters as is more the case today.
Many today probably won't recognize the name Meyer Blinder but Meyer was the Babe Ruth of the penny stock game. Meyer pretty much developed the blind pool scam that was used by most of the industry for years before being greatly restricted by the SEC, all by himself. This year's recipient will join Meyer, our first inductee, in our Hall of Shame.
Meyer Blinder 1922 - 2004 Blinder Robinson & Company
Best Independent Financial Watchdog
Our-Street.com
StockPatrol.com
Winners will be notified by email and acceptance speeches will be posted as received.
IMPORTANT NOTE: To you nominees, especially those who have not been mentioned previously on our site, please understand a couple of things. First, these nominations came primarily from our readers so don't blame us for choosing to list you. Secondly, please take a moment to visit our disclaimer page as well as our "so you want to sue us" page so you have all the information necessary right up front. Lastly, part of our highly complex judging system is what we have called the "Person Is Swearing (he'll) Sue You" factor or simply the "PISSY factor". If a nominee gets PISSY, this will activate the PISSY factor and increases their chances of winning their category significantly so keep that in mind as well.
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