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Pastimes : Scammy Awards... Thursday, Feb 25, 1999 at 9pm EST -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rande Is who wrote (158)	2/5/1999 8:04:00 PM
From: Jim Spitz	Respond to of 445

Largest dilution: LTGL now LTGLD Had 200 million shares authorized, 121million in float! Not sure how many outstanding, but it was between there somewhere. exchange2000.com followed by http://www.exchange2000.com/~wsapi/investor/reply?s=subject14076+Million+200&sreply=6893931 Oy! jimS By the way, after the reverse 60-1 split there were around 3 million shares OS and now there are around 3.5 million. Can you say "Insty Print"? jrs

To: Rande Is who wrote (158)	2/5/1999 10:56:00 PM
From: pressboxjr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 445

Anybody remember the FAMH scam? Well, here is one of the funniest posts from that board a long time ago, when FAMH was supposed to release awesome earnings. The guy that posted this (Little Engine) has to be the most articulate poster of all time. Here is is his post to a FAMH shareholder who was so upset at Little Engine that he actually wanted to go to his house to kick his butt: To: dexx (2109 ) From: Little Engine Wednesday, Jan 28 1998 7:00PM ET Reply # of 26585 Dexx, I don't think I phrased it as "wanting" someone to visit me in Chicago. You can if you wish. As if I would post my address here! Once everyone else posts their address/occupation/shoe size/blood type/color photo, I'll be glad to join in. But the bigger reason is my secret fear... that Ted Kaczynski was NOT actually the Unabomber. Seems too easy, doesn't it? Log cabin, bad social skills, confession, no trial? Hmmmmm... no, I suspect the true Unabomber is one of the FAMH posters (I have my suspicions who it is!) If I printed my address, the TRUE Unabomber (who posts here!) would likely send me a letter bomb disguised as the FAMH audited financials. Believing myself the first to get them, I would rip them open without thinking, and the numbers would blow up in my face. I just can't take that risk. Terrified at the thought, L.E. P.S. E-mail me if you're serious.

To: Rande Is who wrote (158)	2/6/1999 10:27:00 AM
From: LemonHead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 445

Most Unbelievable Press Release of 1998: TCBG The Children's Beverage Group, Inc. made an unsolicited cash offer to purchase Nestle's 'Juicy Juice' product line. - August 20, 1998 That sent the stock spiraling...

To: Rande Is who wrote (158)	2/7/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: BORIS BADENUFF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 445

**OFF TOPIC** slightly NEWS SCAM COSTS VICTIM A FORTUNE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The woman scammed out of $500,000 by an Upper West Side fortune teller is virtually penniless and can't pay her rent, police said yesterday. Patricia Miller, 47 - known as "Grace" to her customers - was wearing a "top of the line" fur coat when she was busted Friday night in a West 72nd Street building to which she had recently relocated. Her victim, meanwhile, can only dream about buying fur coats at this point. "The victim is having a hard time and can't pay her rent," said Lt. Robert Groh, head of the Special Frauds Squad. Her $500,000, paid out over the course of more than four years and 50 visits, still has not been recovered, police said. Police would not release the name of the alleged victim, but said they were tipped to this case after last week's Post expose on fortune-telling scammers. They also refused to identify a woman who allegedly lost $250,000 to Miller in a series of scams that ended when Miller was busted last fall. That case is still pending. In the $500,000 case, police said "Grace" had promised to end the woman's bad luck and break the evil curse on her and her family through her mystical powers. And since March 1994, the victim kept returning, following instructions by "Grace" to light candles, bathe in special water and rub her body with eggs. "It's sad that people buy into this," Groh said. "People cannot cure their ills in this way and manner ... But [Miller] gained her confidence and scammed her. Fortune tellers might be uneducated in certain ways - for instance, they may not know how to read or write. But they hold a Ph.D. in the con." Neighbors said that if Miller is a big-time scammer, she certainly wasn't using the money to pay her bills. She's several months behind in her rent at her West 72nd Street address, and she was recently booted for the same reason from another apartment on West 74th Street, where she had hung a neon "Advisor" sign. "She just signed the summons," a neighbor said of the paperwork handed her by the city sheriff after he and his deputies busted down her door to boot her out. "She looked like she'd been there before." Groh said Miller's latest victim realized she was being taken after reading news accounts last month that detailed the arrest of two other fortune tellers who encouraged their clients to perform similar rituals. Miller was charged with fortune telling, which is a misdemeanor, and two felonies - grand larceny and scheming to defraud. Anyone with information about scam artists is urged to call the Special Frauds Squad at 212-374-6850. ------------------------------------------------------------------