Pumpin' and dumpin' - another update
I'm still getting comments every so often on my original article way back in January. So I'm updating some of the info on the stocks in question and on a couple other things I've found out.
I've received fewer junk faxes of late, just a couple have come to my attention over the last three months. So people may be finding out how to eliminate them, or the sleazy operators have found another racket. Maybe that explains the number of lotteries I've won lately.
As far as the stocks themselves go, even in this year of new Wall Street highs only 3 of 9 I've received have gone up, and three have seen their already all-but-worthless price cut in half again. You can look up the original seven on my initial post, the other two are Terra Nostra Resources Corporation (TNRO, got up to $2.88 on March 17 shortly after two separate faxes were received, now down to $2.13); and Viva World Trade, Inc. (VVWT, was 45 cents when checked on April 5 and is now 26 cents.)
The other thing I wanted to aggregate are all of the opt-out numbers. Perhaps someone with a few extra dollars to spare (or a very nice telephone company employee) can get the real owners behind all of these toll-free numbers, like who actually pays the bills. The list I have is as follows:
(800) 308-1372 (from Sonora Associates)
(800) 308-1390 (Hot Stocks on the Street, two different faxes from Pathfinder Marketing and Gemini Market News)
(800) 571-0031 (Uptrend Finder, UTF Newsletter)
(800) 910-3972 (Asian Investment Alert, Cyber Communications Services Ltd. and Gemini Market News)
(800) 918-2902 (Hot Stocks on the Street Cyber Communications Services Ltd. and Gemini Market News)
(866) 570-7730 (Green Stock Alert, Sonora Associates)
(888) 416-6761 (On The Move Stock Alert, OTM Stock Alerts)
(888) 607-7434 (Hot Stocks on the Street, Cyber Communications Services Ltd. and Gemini Market News)
On April 15 we got the last one I'm aware of. This was different from the rest, had no opt-out number or disclaimer, and was barely legible, I think it advocates a company called Fire Mountain Beverage Company and was from an outfit called "Stock Watch". But the key was, also with the fax itself I found the automatic form our fax spits out every so often which shows faxes sent/received.
If you'll recall, April 15 was a Sunday so our machine showed one incoming fax that day and this one had to be it (because our office was closed.) And, lo and behold, it actually had the number that the fax came from. So today I called the number and instead of a fax I got a business menu...unfortunately I couldn't catch the name of the company but I suspect that this may be a situation where the fax and business number are the same.
Either way, here's the number our fax sheet showed: (213) 514-5321.
It's nice to at least get a piece of red meat for the many commentors on my article to take hold of. If you have any success let me know how this comes out! This has become an interesting little sideline for my website, which is about things that interest me and I've gotten interested in this phenomonon because of all the comments I've gotten on my original post.