RE: Berlin Exchange, by Anniebonny AnnieBonny, a swashbuckling, peg legged, rum drinking scoundrel,
"Try calling the Berlin exchange!"
Harris should be worried but then he is an Alfred E. Neuman type of man, "What, me worry?"
For these specific circumstances, the Berlin Exchange is most often used to launder counterfeit shares. A rather complex ruse, a rather complex system. This is a methodology of both American brokers and offshore interests of "washing" the books for counterfeit shares.
This is effected through many means, some of which include depositing counterfeit paper certificates at offshore brokers, often in the Bermudas, converting those certs to electronic shares, moving those shares over into the Berlin Exchange through a European brokerage, then dumping. Profits are then channeled through a variety of pipelines, back into America, with profit share cuts either taken upfront or later distributed.
That is just one of many methods of abusing the Berlin.
A company being listed on the Berlin, without permission, is always bad news, really bad news.
What I witness happening with this most recent upward run, as in the past, is daytraders, flippers, market makers, crooks, all of us delightful people, making excellent profits through creating a false perception of share value which draws in a new batch of suckers.
More and more bagholders are being created by the minute.
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