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To: rl who wrote (3333)	3/4/2000 11:29:00 AM
From: adc	Respond to of 3369

question for you usually when stocks are pumped there is someone anyone actually pushing the stock I cant find any of this is it possible smart money is is quietly gobbling up the shares to gain control of a useful corporate shell in the medical diagnostics field

To: rl who wrote (3333)	3/5/2000 11:44:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3369

rl, You should see the movie "Boiler Room". It was a very good portrayal of how these stocks are sold. For all practical purposes, most stocks on the "pink sheets" or sold OTC from the BBs are sold as "chop", meaning that they are given to these slimy boiler room brokerages at hugh discounts which the outfits sell for the "rip", or commission. Some of these stocks scams are becoming sophisticated in their approach. I have seen just amazing web sites, technology claims, and stuff for these new scam artists. I still remember the BRE-X fiasco. It was just another failed gold mine in Borneo until someone "salted" or put gold in the core samples. Suddenly it was a gold mine with an estimated 10 billion dollars in gold down the shaft. By the time the scam was detected, billions of dollars had changed hands, people had been bumped off, even the Government of Indonesia had become destabalized as a result of this scam. It was just as Mark Twain once wrote "A gold mine is nothing more than a hole in the ground with a liar standing next to it..." -John