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To: SI Dave who wrote (7926)	4/12/2005 6:34:29 PM
From: olivier asser	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12465

Are you saying that Berber, Moor and Rea using aliases at SI in aid of their myriad schemes makes them orangutans? There are so many differences between an comments made on an advisory service versus a message board that it's... well, like comparing apples and orangutans.

To: SI Dave who wrote (7926)	4/12/2005 6:45:22 PM
From: olivier asser	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12465

Not at all. Many sites have names that they use for analysts - I named DT at DTO and Merlin, Skibum, Excalibur and C2 at TP. What is at issue here is site owners creating fictitious identities they list as clients, who cheerlead the calls making false profit claims on those calls, when in fact those so-called satisfed clients making huge gains are really in fact imposters created and controlled by the site owners. TS raised the NYT article. Here's a passage of interest from that article, which this time is completely accurate, and telling: He has populated his site with "ghosts," traders who wax enthusiastic about the money they have made on Mr. Rea's calls but who insiders say can be tracked electronically to Mr. Rea himself. Ghosts on the site, these people say, carry nicknames like Warlock, Wizard, Nimrod, Viper, Stoned and Roxy. They could be seen as such because computer-wise users of the Web site could determine the Web addresses and server locations from which writers sent their postings, according to former employees and members. "In too many instances," it was the same location coming up," one former member recalled. "It was an effort to deceive the members that there was a strong trading team with all their fingers on the pulse of the stock market." When asked on Friday if Warlock, Wizard and the others were people other than himself, Mr. Rea said, "I think they're real people." But he declined to put a reporter in touch with them, saying, "Several of those names are not interested in speaking to you." "Several of those names are not interested in speaking to you." LOL - only one of Rea's multiple personalities was "interested in speaking to" Gretchen. Like I said, I know exactly how that ChatSpace, Inc. chat software works, and if we go to trial I'll show the jury a live demonstration of creating imposters and booting clients and then hijacking their identities to serve IA purposes. That would seem to imply that you are referring the principals of an advisory service (such as AI) using the name/alias of an analyst, a la' "SkiBum" - yes?