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Scam Sniffing, Ball Busting Vigilantes
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Emcee:  Don Pueblo Type:  Unmoderated
Recently, Pluvia exposed a group of companies that, it appears, may not have had our best interests at heart. #Subject-25226 ...Some good people joined in, and a few days later the SEC decided maybe they needed to take a closer look. #reply-7557809 Read the whole thread from post #1...it's really good reading.

I congratulated Mr. Pluvia on his good work, and he suggested the title for this thread. I liked it too, and here it is.

Please don't just start posting about some stock because you foolishly purchased it at the top and it tanked. That's not the fault of the stock; that's your fault. If you feel the need to flame a "vigilante" for posting something you own, #reply-7523599 go for it, that stuff makes me laugh out loud.

Find out a little about the stock first and if you suspect it could be a scam, post it here, with your preliminary due diligence. Remember, if you assert a scam and don't say it's your opinion, you could be guilty of libel. This is not the Coffee Shop. Let's make this thread for stocks that you have done some preliminary work on.

Here is a real good place to start:http://www.stockdetective.com/

If others feel motivated to help out, then away we go. If we're lucky, we may even get some back-pedaling touts to show up too. #reply-7514808

Individuals can make a difference. Maybe some day there will be no OTC BB scam stocks. And best of all, busting scam BB stocks is really, really fun.
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292Phony Faxes Are the Latest Stock Scam WASHINGTON (AP) - 'Tis the season to Mighty_Mezz-12/27/2004
291Another Brick in the Enron Wall Motley Fool Thu Feb 19, 1:22 PM ET By Bill MannJohn Sladek-2/29/2004
290JUST A LITTLE MORE INFO ON SETH CAYER northernlight.comStockDung-7/16/2002
289REMEMBER SETH CAYER FROM Tne Big Scam? CTRN, ECTS, IVHD, SMEK & MALB THREADStockDung-7/16/2002
288NY Times: Sen. John McCain - The Free Market Needs New Rules nytimes.com The FRaymond Duray-7/8/2002
287CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: DATA DUMP Fasten your seatbelt: geocities.com wikipRaymond Duray-7/7/2002
286Re: <i>could NWS be the next Worldcom? opinions please? </i> Not pRaymond Duray-6/27/2002
285could NWS be the next Worldcom? opinions please?Paul Corbett-6/27/2002
284Next up: WCOM Massive fraud reported at WorldCom EBITDA said to have been infGlenn Petersen-6/25/2002
283Hi Scott, It came out in the news yesterday that the civil suits against Andy Raymond Duray-6/25/2002
282<<Ken Lay, master privatizer.>> LOL Mr. Lay sure is NOT a master tstockman_scott-6/25/2002
281Hi Scott, I completely agree. Ms. Stewart is getting scapegoated here. AccordiRaymond Duray-6/25/2002
280When Will Ken Lay Go To Jail...????? It's such an embarrassment to our juststockman_scott-6/25/2002
279well you are right, i don't follow you. The only thing you exposed was yBear Down-6/25/2002
278Beat down, just because I expose something doesn't mean I'm trading it tDave Gore-6/25/2002
277Just reading what you write keeps my faith that there will always be people likeBear Down-6/24/2002
276Is the Small Investor Helpless? Message 17645808 Some of your readers may wantDave Gore-6/24/2002
275Companies Need Honest Accounting Of Stock Options By Jerry Knight Monday, JunBaldur Fjvlnisson-6/24/2002
274GLOBAL CROSSING IMITATES GENERAL MILLS, SHREDDING FOR FUN AND PROFIT nytimes.cRaymond Duray-6/24/2002
273NYSE'S GRASSO HAS A BAD HAIR DAY: MARTHA, MY DEAR BOARD MEMBER...... They Raymond Duray-6/23/2002
272POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL msnbc.com <Snip> <i>Then she did something Raymond Duray-6/23/2002
271THE WEEK THAT MARTHA SQUEALED....... nydailynews.com Will she try to put lipstRaymond Duray-6/23/2002
270THE OUTRAGE THAT NEVER ENDS Message 17639848Raymond Duray-6/22/2002
269GLad I kept this thread bookmarked. I love that sort of entertainment, no doubtAugustWest-3/17/2002
268Lifes pretty good to me lately. I went into a Stock market coma last year. NotISOMAN-3/16/2002
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