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To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (7097)	3/25/2000 8:36:00 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 10354

Wall Street Directory List Your Company Newest Listings Hot Saturday, March 25, 2000 Alphabetical - Enter Letters Capital Growth Report - InvestSearch, Wall Street Directory, WSD wsdinc.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Capital Growth Report The Capital Growth Report focuses on analysis of market trends offering real-time examples of past and present developments to support projections of upcoming developments. Written by and for active investors. Information in the CGR is derived from rigorous technical analysis of individual stocks, combined with a wider-scale study of overall market trends. Additional Company & Product Information Contact Info - MOMENTUM INTERNET INC. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spirit of co-operation rules in Web business scmp.com Monday January 25 2000 Spirit of co-operation rules in Web business At first glance, there was nothing unusual about the Capital Growth Report when it arrived in Backspace's snail-mail box. Of equal parts financial jargon and hype, the report - which charges US$78 for a year's subscription to what appeared to be four badly laid-out pages per month - seemed a typical tech-stock newsletter. What made Backspace choke on his morning coffee was the pick of the month: an obscure public Internet company called ZiaSun Technologies. ZiaSun was known as Momentum Internet when it was based in Hong Kong. Three years ago, a magazine called The Dataphile revealed that Momentum was behind a stable of porn Web sites and phone chat lines that promised Bangkok Babes and China Dolls. Thousands of spam messages advertising these services were sent from Momentum's free e-mail service. While not admitting the spamming, Momentum and now ZiaSun president Anthony Tobin told Technology Post last year that the company no longer ran sex-related businesses. Instead, ZiaSun has latched on to other Web trends. It has an Asian search engine, a stock-trading portal, a financial news service, an advertising network and an auction site called AsiaForSale. It moved to San Diego in 1998 when it began trading over the counter in the US, while keeping most Web operations in Asia, mainly in Hong Kong and Manila. While the company claims to be profitable on modest revenues - $9 million in the second quarter last year - it has been criticised by day traders and investors in the US, who have tried to puncture those claims. Mr Tobin had ZiaSun respond by suing several day-trading and investment sites for alleged defamation. While ZiaSun likes to hype its Web sites - 45 press releases last year - it doesn't appear to be making much money. Most of ZiaSun's revenues came from two off-line subsidiaries, a Philippine-based printing business called Momentum Asia and a US learn-how-to-day-trade seminar which charges $3,995 a head, according to Mr Tobin. So Backspace was puzzled why the editor of Capital Growth Report would hold such an optimistic view of ZiaSun's prospects. 'The company has a dominant position in the exploding Asian Internet market . . . We expect that ZiaSun stock will soon be valued with that of profitable peers such as CMGI, now trading in the [US]$80 range.' A visit to Capital Growth's site (www.capitalg.com) shows it is designed and maintained by Momentum Internet and that Capital Growth offers ZiaSun's Swiftrade stock-trading service to subscribers. Isn't co-operation and alliance-building among Web companies heartening? scmp.com business.scmp.com.

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (7097)	3/25/2000 8:46:00 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 10354

Kind sir, could you read this please? It demands your immediate attention. Don't choke on your morning coffee. wsdinc.com Wall Street Directory List Your Company Newest Listings Hot Saturday, March 25, 2000 Alphabetical - Enter Letters Free Company Information MOMENTUM INTERNET INC. The Amber Group, a U.S. based securities and venture capital firm, is a broker/dealer in the U.S. and is involved as a global institutional and retail brokerage. Amber also has a joint venture with Momentum Internet for an online stock trading system called SWIFTRADE. Amber's newsletter is called the Capital Growth Report. MOMENTUM INTERNET INC. 12A, First Pacific Bank Centre, 56 Gloucester Road Wanchai HK 00000 HONG KONG Tel# - 852-2866-8772 Fax# - 852-2866-8137 jhirsch@momentumplus.com capitalg.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spirit of co-operation rules in Web business scmp.com Monday January 25 2000 Spirit of co-operation rules in Web business At first glance, there was nothing unusual about the Capital Growth Report when it arrived in Backspace's snail-mail box. Of equal parts financial jargon and hype, the report - which charges US$78 for a year's subscription to what appeared to be four badly laid-out pages per month - seemed a typical tech-stock newsletter. What made Backspace choke on his morning coffee was the pick of the month: an obscure public Internet company called ZiaSun Technologies. ZiaSun was known as Momentum Internet when it was based in Hong Kong. Three years ago, a magazine called The Dataphile revealed that Momentum was behind a stable of porn Web sites and phone chat lines that promised Bangkok Babes and China Dolls. Thousands of spam messages advertising these services were sent from Momentum's free e-mail service. While not admitting the spamming, Momentum and now ZiaSun president Anthony Tobin told Technology Post last year that the company no longer ran sex-related businesses. Instead, ZiaSun has latched on to other Web trends. It has an Asian search engine, a stock-trading portal, a financial news service, an advertising network and an auction site called AsiaForSale. It moved to San Diego in 1998 when it began trading over the counter in the US, while keeping most Web operations in Asia, mainly in Hong Kong and Manila. While the company claims to be profitable on modest revenues - $9 million in the second quarter last year - it has been criticised by day traders and investors in the US, who have tried to puncture those claims. Mr Tobin had ZiaSun respond by suing several day-trading and investment sites for alleged defamation. While ZiaSun likes to hype its Web sites - 45 press releases last year - it doesn't appear to be making much money. Most of ZiaSun's revenues came from two off-line subsidiaries, a Philippine-based printing business called Momentum Asia and a US learn-how-to-day-trade seminar which charges $3,995 a head, according to Mr Tobin. So Backspace was puzzled why the editor of Capital Growth Report would hold such an optimistic view of ZiaSun's prospects. 'The company has a dominant position in the exploding Asian Internet market . . . We expect that ZiaSun stock will soon be valued with that of profitable peers such as CMGI, now trading in the [US]$80 range.' A visit to Capital Growth's site (www.capitalg.com) shows it is designed and maintained by Momentum Internet and that Capital Growth offers ZiaSun's Swiftrade stock-trading service to subscribers. Isn't co-operation and alliance-building among Web companies heartening? scmp.com business.scmp.com.

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (7097)	3/25/2000 9:52:00 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 10354

Kid sir, the Truthseeker is on a roll tonight. Please read this. astro.lsa.umich.edu Swiftrade (1-888-459-8883): Note: See the comments below on Swiftrade not being a broker but a portal to other brokers like Emmett Larkin and West America Securities. Also, Larkin apparently owns Swiftrade. Contact Phone Number (Asia): 886-2-2378-2707. Contact Phone Number (Europe): 34-93-430-1102. Limit & market orders: $32.50 ($29 + $3.50 fee) for up to 3000 shares, then .02/share for all shares over 3000; $72.50 for 5000 shares. Options: $32.50 ($29 + $3.50 fee) + $1.75 per contract. Account minimum: $2500. Comments: This firm caters to foreign and overseas investors. Margin accounts OK. Good glossary available online. "Swiftrade goes on bad. The personal broker is not reachable, and they put a stock they promote in my account without authorization. I should have taken the fact that they promote BB and pink sheets as a warning sign.(5/25/99)" "I was impressed with Swiftrade - helpful, but not pushy. Interface is very good, seems quite usable.(8/6)" "Not a broker but the order system is called Swiftrade. . .strange sales practices. . .I would suggest you skip them [or else] put a strong warning.(9/16/99)" "Swiftrade seems very complicated. They are not the broker [but a] 'portal' to Emmett Larkin [the clearing house] and yet another company, West America Securities is the 'broker'. . .I am worried with them, that I would call one number and be told 'Oh, we are not responsible for that part' and get sent around in circles.(1/22/00)"

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (7097)	3/26/2000 3:01:00 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 10354

We've gotten several inquiries lately about the Capital Growth Report. Like a growing number of stock promoters' sites, you have to register - in this case with its parent, Capital Assets - in order to receive its email touts. Both Capital Growth Report and Capital Assets are part of the Capital Group. Folks who sign on with this outfit will have the opportunity to trade through Swiftrade, an affiliate of ZiaSun, which we profiled as a Stinky Stock in April. Coincidence? Another ZiaSun partner, Momentum Internet Inc., hosts Capital Group's website. Since visitors to the Capital Group's website have a choice of doing business with its office in Taipei or Barcelona, we're guessing the company is targeting non-U.S. investors. That's in keeping with the litany of complaints we've been hearing from investors outside of the U.S. who have been bullied into buying ZiaSun shares, and then find it almost impossible to sell them. Did we mention that the Capital Growth Report frequently touts ZiaSun? As always, tread lightly????????. The Stock Detective arol.com ====================================== wsdinc.com Wall Street Directory List Your Company Newest Listings Hot Saturday, March 25, 2000 Alphabetical - Enter Letters Free Company Information MOMENTUM INTERNET INC. The Amber Group, a U.S. based securities and venture capital firm, is a broker/dealer in the U.S. and is involved as a global institutional and retail brokerage. Amber also has a joint venture with Momentum Internet for an online stock trading system called SWIFTRADE. Amber's newsletter is called the Capital Growth Report. MOMENTUM INTERNET INC. 12A, First Pacific Bank Centre, 56 Gloucester Road Wanchai HK 00000 HONG KONG Tel# - 852-2866-8772 Fax# - 852-2866-8137 jhirsch@momentumplus.com capitalg.com

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (7097)	3/26/2000 3:40:00 PM
From: StockDung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10354

Quote of the week: "When Hotmail sold to Microsoft for $400 million, I felt sick." -- Anthony L. Tobin, president and CEO of ZiaSun, on the advantages of his free and custom email service, PINmail (http://www.pinmail.com/), over its rivals. veniceinteractive.com ================================================= "Momentum created and owns shares in AsiaFocus International, which owns PINmail. The service was launched last week in Hong Kong and provides an e-mail address accessed from a Web site." "Hong Kong advertising agency Momentum has created an anonymous e-mail service for Internet users around the world. Director Anthony Tobin said the service would act like a post office box, protecting anonymity. This form of confidentiality, inevitably raises issues of privacy and censorship. A Finnish Internet service offering anonymous e-mail was closed down recently because it was perceived to be condoning child pornography. Mr Tobin said PINmail (http://www. PINmail.com) was designed as an offshore address only for legitimate businesses, but the company could not necessarily control its users. 'We are very different from the Finnish site, which was cumbersome, slow and free,' Mr Tobin said. 'We also have a very different view of confidentiality. The guy in Finland said he would defend his users' confidentiality to the hilt. If there is proof of illegal activities, I would give up a name.' Momentum created and owns shares in AsiaFocus International, which owns PINmail. The service was launched last week in Hong Kong and provides an e-mail address accessed from a Web site. Unlike usual e-mail software, PINmail is not downloaded on to a user's hardware, but sits at a server site and can be accessed using Netscape 3.0. Momentum's general manager, Graham Daley, designed the program using a combination of CGI, an industry standard, and Javascript. He said because of inconsistencies between Netscape's and Internet Explorer's use of Javascript, the Microsoft version was delayed and is now due out before December. 'There are really no disadvantages to having your e-mail sit on a server rather than your PC,' he said. 'In many ways it's an advantage because you can access your e-mail from any site in the world as long as you are using the correct browser.' PINmail can also allow you to maintain an anonymous address. Momentum has set up three server sites in Hong Kong, California and Amsterdam to enable easier and more efficient access. PINmail costs US$19.95 a year.' And it is of course, for pinheads. scmp.com

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (7097)	3/26/2000 3:45:00 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 10354

iMall (http://www.imall.com/) seems has gotten out of dutch with the Federal Trade Commission, but it's going to cost them. The e-commerce site and two of its former honchos have agreed to fork over $4 million to settle the FTC's complaint that the company made false claims about getting rich on the Internet. According to the feds, former iMall president Mark R. Comer and former chair Craig R. Pickering charged $2,995 a pop to teach participants of seminars they staged how to earn up to $20,000 per month working only 5 to 10 hours per week. The FTC alleges such claims were false and misleading, and that the shephards failed to uphold various rules governing their relationships with the sheep, such as requiring "a franchisor to have a reasonable basis for any earnings representations, and to disclose the material bases and assumptions upon which those representations are made." In addition to the dollars -- Comer and Pickering will cough up $3.25 million, iMall will kick in the rest, and the two former officials are barred for life from offering an Internet or pay-per-call opportunity and prohibited for 10 years from selling franchises. veniceinteractive.com ======================================================= Table of Contents - Bytes ZiaSun Technologies (http://www.ziasun.com/) has launched ServiceLive (http://www.servicelive.com/), a 24-hour e-mail and telephone response center developed by the company at its building in the Clark Special Economic Zone, Philippines. The service, currently used to handle e-mail inquiries from the company's own websites, such as Swiftrade (http://www.swiftrade.com/), M Finance (http://www.mfinance.com/), and Asia4Sale (http://www.asia4sale.com/), is being expanded to other Internet companies on a contract basis. The company also recently acquired Online Investors Advantage (http://www.i-advantage.com/), a Utah company specializing in online stock trading education and training, for an undisclosed amount of cash, restricted stock, and stock options. Online, which teaches would-be investors in securities how to invest online, was co-founded by Ross W. Jardine, who also helped create iMall. veniceinteractive.com

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (7097)	3/26/2000 3:55:00 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 10354

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