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Gold/Mining/Energy : International Precious Metals (IPMCF)
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To: Tim Hall who wrote (27749)11/19/1997 10:15:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (2) of 35569
 
Tim, What about the immense profits you have made here? I remember you groaning under the weight of all the dirt you shouldered. Did you not get all the precious comments and bank them.

What gets me is if you approached people by phone with a scheme to buy a certain stock they would soon tune you out, their antennae have become sensitized to that kind of crooked approach. But SI and other chats lead people to drop their guard as they get to know each other. The cons only need to respond to text, and they have time to evolve a text patter, like the scripts that the boiler room operators use. That way people end up trusting the wrong people. Those who are just honest posters are soon taken in as part of the group, or cast out, and heckled, to limit their input to the group, as they might expose the scam.
The SI chat area has given a con mans window to the ears/eyes of many people. A few get sold, and they sell the others, and bring their friends on board etc etc. You get a 'club' scenario. Members only. And they go in ever decreasing circles until they enter their own backsides, from which safe retreat they hurl invective and calumny on all critics.
In effect they become a closed mind society, and thus become prey for the con men. It is like a global used car salesmans dream.

Bill
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